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Twenty-six Lies About H.R. 3200

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The latest detailed review by FactCheck.org in regards to an chain email going around attacking one of the proposed health care bills.

A notorious analysis of the House health care bill contains 48 claims. Twenty-six of them are false and the rest mostly misleading. Only four are true.
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Twenty-six Lies About H.R. 3200 | FactCheck.org

I personally don't agree with universal health care for the mere fact that I think the government won't do any better job then the private sector would.
 

I wish many who were against the bill would be as even handed as you are being. Thank you. A breath of fresh air.
 
Why is FactCheck an unquestionable entity?
 
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Why is FactCheck an unquestionable entity?
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They are not, but I have yet to catch them in a distortion or inaccuracy. There should be no unquestionable entities though.

I figure they are fairly unbiased because far too often, they post something that is inconvenient to my views, and I have to change my ideas on a topic to fit reality because of it.
 
Something I found very interesting is that there are other forms of health care reform legistlation/proposals out there - 7 in all, not just the House Bill (HR 3200):


*Links provided where available

According to the website GovTrack.us, which keeps track of all bills proposed by Congress, each bill (H.R. 15, H.R. 676, H.R. 2520/S. 1099 and H.R. 3200) are all still active. I know it's a lot of reading, so I recommend for those who are interested to go to the Kaiser Family Foundation's website and review the side-by-side chart that summarizes each HCR proposal mentioned above. here.

For what it's worth...

 
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Awesome link, thanks alot for it.
 
Oh, and might I add that for all of Sen. Grassley's tough talk against having a public option in any health care reform legistlation, he IS the co-author of the Senate Finance Committee's "Policy Option" health care reform proposal. Talk about being two-faced!
 
Upon further review...

Ops! I failed to notice there are 5 more HCR proposals mentioned on the Kaiser Family Foundation chart:

  • Empowering Patient's First Act (H.R. 3400)
  • The American Health Security Act of 2009 (S. 703)
  • The American Heath Care Act of 2009 (H.R. 193)
  • The healthy Americans Act (S. 391)
  • A joint-proposal by former Sens. Baker, Daschle and Dole, "Crossing the Lines: ...Reform U.S. Health Care System*"

*(Note: You should be able to download a copy of this proposal here.)

Ummmm...happy reading? :3oops:
 
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