Posted by
Glenn Flowers on Monday, March 09, 2009 6:39:57 AM
I have succeeded in reading the meat of HR-1, known as the Stimulus Bill (only 674 pages, not the 1100+ reported), and would like to disprove the lies that HR-1 advocates or demands older citizens be evaluated to determine their eligibility to receive health care, and that they may be denied care if they are determined to be too old to warrant the cost. This is just not true. It is not in the stimulus bill anywhere. In fact, the HITECH section (Div. A, Title IV) states more than once that special attention and action will be required to insure care is readily available for those with non-standard health care needs such as the elderly. Nowhere in the bill does it state that the elderly should accept that they are getting old or that they are going to die. There is also no mention anywhere that research into new and better drugs and medical procedures will or should be limited. Again, the opposite is demanded by the bill.
These false claims about the bill seem to have originated at bloomberg.com with featured writers intermingling the wording of HR-1 with excerpts from Tom Daschle’s book Crtitical: What We Can Do About the Healthcare Crisis. If one pays attention to these writers’ placement of quotation marks it is easy to see their intent to mislead the reader. They quote from the book as if it is part and parcel to the bill. They headline: "Seniors Hardest Hit" and then start quoting Daschle’s book regarding elderly accepting the conditions of aging instead of treating them. Which is which? Are they saying seniors are hardest hit by the bill, or by Daschle’s book? They imply the former then quote the latter. This is dishonest, intentional, and typical of the liberal MSM, but is never accepted or embraced by true conservatives.
I do not, in any way support this stimulus bill as I believe it is outright theft and a blueprint for implementing socialist government in America. But I also do not support dishonesty or misrepresentation by strategic quoting, or spreading of rumor by any party for any reason, especially those claiming to be conservative. They give us all a harder row to hoe.
Glenn Flowers