Conservatives For Patients Rights Lies, Claims Comcast Pulled Down ‘Misleading’ HCAN Ads
Conservatives For Patients Rights Lies, Claims Comcast Pulled Down ‘Misleading’ HCAN Ads
Since March, Conservatives for Patients Rights (CPR) — headed by disgraced hospital CEO Rick Scott and represented by the same public relations firm that brought us the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth — has been actively distorting the health care reform debate.
While the health industry is trying to remain at the negotiating table, CPR is attacking the reform effort in a somewhat schizophrenic media campaign. The group has linked to progressive health care proposals from its website before running ads arguing that Democrats had no health care plan, conflating the budget resolution with health care reform legislation, and claiming that President Obama seeks to import Britain’s health care system into America.
Now the group that did so much research on Obama’s health care reform that it ended up attacking a non-existent health care proposal is soliciting contributions on the false premise that it scored a major victory over its ideological rival, Health Care For America Now, which has been running ads criticizing the group’s activities.
This morning, Rick Scott sent a letter to subscribers claiming that, “after reviewing HCAN’s ad, Comcast has determined that it is misleading and has been pulled off the air”:
As you may know, the liberal group Health Care for America Now recently started running a mudslinging TV ad against me personally. After reviewing HCAN’s ad, Comcast has determined that it is misleading and has been pulled off the air. …But they were taught a lesson. … Unfortunately, this surely won’t stop HCAN and its allies from continuing their campaign to use any means necessary to achieve government-run healthcare. In fact, HCAN reportedly plans to spend $40 million for big government healthcare. That’s why I need your help. Your contribution of $25, $50, $100, $250, $1000 or more to CPR Education*, our charitable affiliate, will help us to continue to get our message out and fight the misleading tactics of the advocates of government-run healthcare.
The letter came as a surprise to Health Care For America Now, who told me they had purchased a week of ads from May 6 to May 13 and assumed that their ad buy had just expired. The group contacted Comcast, who issued the following clarification: “Comcast has not pulled any ads produced by HCAN off our systems. HCAN has bought more airtime and the ad will soon return to the airwaves, Jason Rosenbaum of HCAN told me.
So CPR either never contacted Comcast or knowingly misrepresented — in fact, lied about — their statement. Either practice is emblematic of the group’s approach to the health care debate.
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so, whom do we hammer for a correction?
we just can’t sit idly by and let lies stand…
May 15th, 2009 at 1:53 pmGovernment funded health care is cruel, because it prolongs suffering to those who really need the care, like the elderly and very sick. It also raises health care cost so much that it makes health care unaffordable to everyone, including the government. This is why government health care often causes health care rationing, shortages, and diminished quality of care, when people can not pay any more taxes.
The insurance industry is trying to manage the huge cost of increased health care because of governmental policies while, at the same time, following insurance law that is written, dictated, and demanded by big government, even if it hurts consumers and raises premium.
Government funded health care, leaves people lives in the hands of government bureaucrats, who will decide if people literally suffer, live or die. After all, where do you go if the government denies your care because it is too expensive, as it often does with the elderly or to those who statistically are going to die?
Where do you go if the government is incompetent or decides that you don’t need the surgery or pain medication?
What does the doctor do when he or she is not paid or told what kind of care the needs to be offered, in order to save money?
With private care, not only do health care costs become affordable to everyone, but you can hold a health care provider accountable for the quality of care, unlike government bureaucrats.
Freedom from government allows people more flexibility, more choices, and more care, because people can gin profit by making health care more efficient, enjoyable, and more effective. It is the only way of lower care cost, while increasing care, to such a point that we not need the insurance.
There is a reason why cures for sickness are found here and not in other places in the world. There is a reason why the really sick come here.
May 20th, 2009 at 9:06 am