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White House Launches Web Site to Battle Health Care 'Rumors' (live link included)
FoxNews.com ^ | 8/10/2009

Posted on 08/10/2009 9:05:56 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies

The Obama administration has launched a new Web site to battle what it calls "wild rumors" about the health care reform plans being pushed through Congress -- including an invitation for the public to tattle on any other "myths" they come across.

It comes a week after the White House asked the public to send in "fishy" information about health care reform.

The Web site, activated Monday, uses the same set-up as the "Fight the Smears" page the Obama campaign maintained last year to battle rumors seen as potentially damaging to his candidacy.

The new "Reality Check" site features a half-dozen alleged rumors about health care reform, responding to them with videos of top aides rebutting them.

"We're offering the site and tools to empower individuals across the country to take this content into their own hands and share it among their networks," a senior administration official said.

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To: Heart of Georgia

I just heard Linda Douglass say the rumors were false in many cases.”

Linda Douglas has drunk so much Kool Aid with NObama that she should be turning cherry color within another month or so. Can she be prosecuted for these lies??

The stock value of Kool Aid must have been leading the stock market for the past week or so.


21 posted on 08/10/2009 9:34:24 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: SonOfDarkSkies
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This man quite literally talks out of the side of his mouth on Medicare being safe, and stronger with reform (he's also a little scary looking): Link
22 posted on 08/10/2009 9:37:57 AM PDT by mlizzy
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

Here’s a good rumor:

Why have mandatory counseling session for seniors every five years? It cannot really be to update your living will. The massive bureaucratic support structure is disproportionate to the “problem.”

What is the real reason? Well every 5 years each senior will receive a list of the additional life-saving treatments to which he will no longer have any legal access, not even at his own expense. Any sensible person would expect a certain amount of flipping out to occur and a the big bureaucracy would probably be needed to deliver the necessary counseling, sedatives, and strait jackets.


23 posted on 08/10/2009 9:42:36 AM PDT by Marylander
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

you guys looked at the website? i dont see anything there about spying on other people or turning people in, or even fishy stuff. am i missing something?

seems pretty tame to me, what did not see?


24 posted on 08/10/2009 9:47:39 AM PDT by beebuster2000
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

Everything at the site refers to Health Insurance reform, not health care reform. Why has this been changed? I thought the deal was universal health care.


25 posted on 08/10/2009 9:50:44 AM PDT by NEMDF
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To: SonOfDarkSkies
In one clip, an aide to adviser Valerie Jarrett disputes the claim that health care reform will lead to "rationing." Kavita Patel says rationing already occurs in the form of private insurers determining how to fund clients' health care, but said the notion that government will interfere in health care is "laughable."

Here's what I don't get. Obamacare will mean millions of currently uninsured people will now have access to your hospitals, doctors, clinics, etc, and those hospitals, doctors, clinics, etc. will have a legal obligation to treat them.

This means that you (hard-working, insurance-paying American) will now have longer waits to get appointments or get treatment. That's rationing.

It's like here in the state of California. Everyone can go to Community College (it's called "open access"). You application is accepted, but you can't get classes because of funding cutbacks. Rationing.

Liberals think they can magically increase the demand side of the healthcare equation without increasing the supply. But hey - we'd have "universal coverage". Yay!

I'm not sure why nobody is making this same argument. If we were to redirect Federal Stimulus dollars away from stupid "green" initiatives and into training doctors, nurses and building hospitals, I may be more sympathetic to efforts to provide healthcare for everyone. But as it is now, anyone who claims that this (adding millions of people who can now request appointments at your doctors office) doesn't significantly ration health care is lying!
26 posted on 08/10/2009 9:52:36 AM PDT by RFH (Obamacare results in rationing of health care!)
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To: RFH

VOTE AGAINST ALL INCUMBENTS


27 posted on 08/10/2009 10:12:29 AM PDT by crazyotto
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To: SonOfDarkSkies; Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; ...

The list, ping


28 posted on 08/10/2009 11:58:10 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

Man, oh, man

They’ve go this website, Health Care for America Now (HCAN) and their playbook, Organizing for America, The Health Care 24 hr ‘war room’, Letters being sent to personal email addresses, Acorn, SEIU Union, the DNC, Majority Congress, Majority House, The Whitehouse - And the labeling of protesters as unamerican all over the air by our dem officials.

And they can’t handle some upset people at a townhall meeting.

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/house-dems-set-up-healthcare-war-room-2009-08-10.html

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2312634/posts

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/documents/2009/08/hcan-playbook-for-thwarting-town-hall-protesters.php?page=1


29 posted on 08/10/2009 12:08:11 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: roses of sharon

Obama sure is working hard to push something
that he says almost everyone wants. LOL
That alone shows how very few want what he
is pushing.


30 posted on 08/10/2009 12:17:03 PM PDT by Katarina (Sarah Palin and ElRushbo the true conservatives. Thank God for Conservative talk radio.)
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To: HollyB
And they can’t handle some upset people at a townhall meeting.

No, they are not coping with an engaged and enraged public well at all.

31 posted on 08/10/2009 12:22:46 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

What goofs! Why not just direct people to where they can read the bills for themselves like most of us have done and quit trying to lie about what is in there?


32 posted on 08/10/2009 12:54:15 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Nachum

Nachum, they know there is a very large percentage of our citizens who do not want this health care. But, they need to ram it through. They know the honeymoon is leaving and it is now or maybe never for this administration to pass the health care reform bill.

I want my own care coverage, not theirs. Geez, everyday they are reaching further and further into the private sector. I think the buck stops here.


33 posted on 08/10/2009 1:05:08 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: HollyB
I think the buck stops here.

It is the final nail in the coffin to send the economy to a place that will take many long years to recover from.

34 posted on 08/10/2009 1:43:47 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies
Free Handout/Flyer Images
Exposes Obamacare!

35 posted on 08/10/2009 2:14:43 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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