NYT - Republican attackpoints on healthcare and some responses

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

We need to gear up for the game now.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/us/politics/14health....

In the memorandum, Mr. Luntz said his polling and analysis had identified this as “the best anti-Democrat message”: “No Washington bureaucrat or health care lobbyist should stand between your family and your doctor. The Democrats want to put Washington politicians in charge of your health care.”

Mr. Luntz advised Republicans to show they “understand and empathize” with voters’ concerns about soaring health costs. “You simply must be vocally and passionately on the side of reform,” he wrote.

He urged Republicans to argue that the Democratic plan would “deny people treatments they need and make them wait to get the treatments they are allowed to receive.”

Mr. Luntz recommended this language: “If you have to wait weeks for tests and months for treatment, that’s a health care crisis.”

Yes, "they must be vocally and passionately on the side of reform" - only they're not.

The simplest response will be " Put up your plan and we'll compare them point by point. Until then, shut up or put up."

Next best response - "This plan allows you to keep what you have. You would only be interested in public plan by CHOICE. No one in America is going to have the public plan forced on them. But, we need to cover the 49 million Americans that have no health insurance or insurance that is too expensive for them and this plan does that."


Now, if only it would.


(I still would prefer single payer, I just don't see it happening, not with the cabal we have in Congress at the moment.)

[jannyk]

1. When you have health Insurance and

still cannot afford to see a doctor, due to extortionately high deductibles, that's a Health Care Crisis!!

Apart from the 50mil 'uninsured', how many tens of millions, like us, still cannot afford to see a doctor because of a $5000 per person, per year deductable??

Wait weeks to see a Doctor?? Even though this statement is not true, I'd love the chance. It would be a vast improvement in our case, as neither of us has been to a doctor in years! We pay $6,000 a year in Health Insurance premiums for health care we can't afford to use. That's a fucking crisis!!

[EC]

2. How about asking them if their grandparents were denied

treatment from Medicare or if they had to wait for treatment...any complaints?