Comments on: Fact-Checking Karl Rove’s Attacks Against The Public Option

By: SIDNEY MOSSexcellent counter arguments cai U print out on ly the myths aND ANSWERS,NOT THE COMMENTS?

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:40:50 +0000

THE DEBUNKING WAS VERY GOOD AND SHOULD BE AVAILABLE FOR ALL THE COUNTRY TO KNOW ABOUT.BUT HOW CAN I PRINT OUT JUST THE 7 MYTHS AND THE 7 DEBUNKING RERSPONSES?

By: Michael F. Sarabia

Michael F. Sarabia — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:10:37 +0000

The best way to confuse is to make a bold assertion opposite the truth. This worked in confusing people on Global Warming, Cancer from smoking, role of regulation in financial institutions and, even, whether an airplane could ever fly.

Mr. Karl Rove is the master of the Assertive Look, if he told me two plus two equal five, I might hesitate to confirm. He is the Master Teacher of Con-Jobs, and never blinks.
That the US spends ten times more, per capita, than other nations yet has 14th or 17th rank in longevity, does not bother him at all. He wants to make sure his clients, not the people, are well taken care.

He seems to worry about money, not about health or longevity but, if the money does not improve health, what is the point?
The Bush Administration changed the responsibility for drug testing from the Government to drug dealer, ops, drug maker.
And, we know about who takes best carea for chicken coops.

Like our Financial Institutions, Drug makers need regulation because they have been proven to repeatedly market drugs of higher costs with no comensurate benefits or, even, deadly drugs. They gained control of drug testing and government scientists must believe whatever they write about their drug tests. The worst examples are Neurological drugs, because the patient does not die and the burden is on wealthy families or the unwealthy taxpayer, and they whistle all the way to the bank. How gullible are we? A Millioner Ambassador was talked into letting his daughter have a Lobotomy, the first one ever.

Why bother about drug costs if we don’t know the value of the drug? Yes, I know, we must trust doctors but, what knowledge do they have that is independent of whatever the drug maker said in the all-expense paid vacation, ops, seminar in Bermuda, with the family?
Yes, I know, trust on our doctor is part of the reason we get well. That is the same reason Witch Doctors were succesful for so long. The humban race grew in number and longevity without man-made drugs for most of history, and still does for most of the world.

By: Jeannemarie Simon

Jeannemarie Simon — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:43:27 +0000

My spouse has a “public option”–the VA hospital. It has given excellent service, but it’s too far to use all the time. Our local family doctor is covered by private insurance. Their bureaucrats come between us and our doctor’s decisions; too often we have to argue to get the tests we need. Specialists aren’t that easy to see, and we have very little choice. Most of the medical specialists in our town are NOT covered by our insurance, so we have to travel. I can’t imagine that a public option could be worse.

By: Jim Freeley

Jim Freeley — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:15:30 +0000

Yes many government run emergency rooms and hospitals are broke. This is because they are the medical treatment providers of last resort. This is where the uninsured and underinsured are forced to go. A national health insurance plan with a public option will allow these facilities to receive payment for the service they provide.

By: Emily Clark

Emily Clark — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:35:41 +0000

As an American living in one of the countries that provides universal health care through the government, I would tell anyone to stop letting idiots like Karl Rove distort such a system. In Denmark, where I live, there is a public and private option. We are here temporarily and have only the public, tax-supported option. I have no problem getting in to see a physician, it is easy and quick to get a referral to a specialist, I can call any morning and talk to an actual doctor, and I feel that care is excellent. What’s to be afraid of, except that the big insurance and drug companies are terrified of losing their monopoly profits.

By: Joyce Ann

Joyce Ann — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:07:16 +0000

Is your name really Igor Volsky? How did socialized medicine work out where you came from? Have you ever visited a U.S. Veteran’s hospital? Waited to get medical attention? Have you ever been to a U.S. County (government run) emergency room for healthcare? Ever notice they are all broke? Is that what Obama and Hillary want for all of us? (Except themselves, of course, they get to walk right into Walter Reed without a wait.) But then, “Some of us are more equal than others. . . .”

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:48:52 +0000

I think Rove’s article used too many standard Republican scare tactics, but I still can’t support a public plan.
What needs to be more clearly stated by defenders of the public plan is how we can prevent it from being politicized and subsidized. If we can’t clearly lay out rules preventing this, and I don’t believe we can, then the public plan will ultimately destroy competition, rather than create more of it.

By: jbrantow

jbrantow — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:10:18 +0000

Rove has been lying and distorting since he took his first breath. Remember he bugged his own office in his early career and then public blamed it on the opposition. He’s like Lee Atwater redux. His physical appearance apparently mirrors his inner rotteness

By: Cats r Flyfishn

Cats r Flyfishn — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:16:05 +0000

Medicare Part D – what a scam by Big Pharma (drug companies). I was talking to a person yesterday who told me that her father-in-law falls into the “donut hole” every other month. His cost for medication is $1500.00/month and that when he falls into this “donut hole”, he skips some of his medication.

By: joseph

joseph — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:42:04 +0000

This is pathetic: Rove is recycling recycled ideas. These were new back in the 60’s, and didn’t work even then. Isn’t it time for a nice retirement home?

By: Bill Jackson

Bill Jackson — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:47:51 +0000

The only thing that comes out of Karl Rove’s mouth is complete fabrications and lies and if anyone believes him they are just as delusional as what he is. Karl Rove never has completed university and during the late 1960’s and early 1970’s he got deferments so he wouldn’t have to serve in Vietnam. Twice the lying scumbag Karl Rove quit but that is okay according to him though he was to big of a coward like former President George Walker Bush and Vice President Five Time Deferment Dickless Cheney.

Karl Rove has to learn to keep his mouth shut as nobody cares to listen to the pathetic Ahole anymore.

By: darms

darms — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:01:48 +0000

Many have said this, likely but MYTH 6: “Americans will be forced into a private option:” should be “”Americans will be forced into a public option:”. OTT you know the stuff…

By: stateofthedivision

stateofthedivision — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:06:58 +0000

Karl Rove was a political hack for the Bush White House. As the number of uninsured grew by 10 million on his shift, Rove has nothing substantive to offer on health care reform.