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In honor of the late, great Ashley Morris, I have entitled this post after the famous FYYFF post he wrote in the aftermath of the Federal Flood, and the talking heads' inane commentary about whether to rebuild New Orleans.
It's so nice to see a religious group getting involved in politics, such as the Family Research Council, (one of the national partners of the Louisiana Family Forum), especially when they are wealthy enough to focus on things like health care reform, in the form of push polls to Louisianans. Specifically, they're focusing on the following items in the Senate's health care legislation:
As Congress prepares to vote on a health care overhaul plan, Family Research Council (FRC) today announced an eight week campaign to call all household phones in Louisiana to survey each household on provisions of the Senate health care bill. These include abortion funding, rationing, higher taxes, and government-run health care, or the public option.
Never mind that 894,000 Louisianans who do not currently have insurance will be able to afford health insurance, thanks to the legislation. No,
let's focus on the "funding" for abortion. The issue is that the bill currently allows private health insurance companies that receive federal subsidies to offer abortion coverage, which, to abortion opponents means that the federal government is paying for abortions. Never mind that the bill also requires any abortion coverage to be paid for with premiums paid by the beneficiary of the health care plan.
FYLFFYFF.
Never mind that health insurance companies will no longer be able to deny coverage to people when they need it for any reason other than they haven't paid their premium. No, let's focus on the "rationing" that will occur. I don't know if anybody at the Family Research Council or the Louisiana Family Forum has noticed this yet, but there is already rationing of health care in this nation ... 1 American dies every 12 minutes, 5 an hour, 120 a day, 45,000 every year because they lack health insurance ... if that's not rationing, I don't know what it is.
FYLFFYFF.
Never mind that the bill closes the donut hole in the Medicare Part D coverage that forces many seniors to pay thousands for brand name prescription drugs every single year. No, let's try to scare seniors into thinking the bill will legalize euthanisia:
"National health care changes being pushed by President Obama, Senator Reid, and Speaker Pelosi would institute rationing of medical care by an unelected board that can reject surgeries, drugs, or therapies which you or your loved ones may need. There are also great concerns about euthanasia. Do such documented facts make you want to stop changes to our health care system?"
Never mind that this bunk was discredited months ago. No, let's scare Louisianans about the health care reform bill just because we can.
FYLFFYFF.
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