Right-Wing Health Care Group Tricked British Women Into Appearing In Anti-Reform Ad

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Right-Wing Health Care Group Tricked British Women Into Appearing In Anti-Reform Ad

Earlier this year, Conservatives for Patients Rights (CPR), an anti-health care reform group led by the disgraced former CEO of Columbia/HCA Healthcare Rick Scott, began running a commercial attacking the British health care system. The TV ad runs through “tragic

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[lostwiginity]

Oh no they didn't!

[syndicalist]

So once again a counter point to health care reform in the USA is based on a lie.

[screamingintune]

all they have are lies -- the truth does not suit their purposes at all.

[syndicalist]

Sure seems that way!

It's getting to the point where I almost respect someone who simply says they have a philosophical disagreement with the principle of the government providing a public health insurance plan, period. And I never thought I would say that, ever. Because the folks that do not do this, and simply lie, lie, lie, invent death panels, say the bill would funnel money secretly to unions and ACORN, etc., seem to be the ones creating the most noise in the media. (And a lot of that is the media's fault, who changed the narrative from "Americans versus private health insurance industry" to "yahoos versus Democrat politicians.")

[screamingintune]

The media has done their best to give the craziest American crackpots relevance, and it's pissing me off like you have no idea.

And the fact that these privileged fucking asshole crazy people have gotten such a strong voice while the people who are truly the victims of our system get no voice whatsoever -- sdlfkjslk;jfskjlklkjANGER.

Meh. I really just wish we could ship the crazy people out of the country. Maybe send them all to Texas or Alaska and encourage secession. Then they can have their happy perfect libertaritard paradise and the rest of us can live a decent, first-world life.

[apocalypsos]

Oh, I've been waiting for that ever since this whole NHS-sucks mess started up. The British might knock the NHS for its flaws, but I've yet to hear a single person living under it say, "Boy, I wish I could trade our healthcare system for that American model!"

[songinmyear]

I kind of see the British relationship with the NHS like sisters. You love her but there are some things about her that bug you. But you wouldn't trade her for the world. And whilst it's okay for you to be a bitch to her, when some dickhead comes in and slags her off your gonna kick their ass. Or maybe i've been reading way too much hetalia latley and have a strange need to humanize everything.

[lisaee]

I was trying not to bring Hetalia into this, but kind of failing. >__>

I think your analogy is pretty stop on, really.

[impeachtea]

As a Brit, I absolutely adore the USA, apart from the "healthcare" and the right-wing fruitcakes. So I am following this story with very particular interest.

Keep it up, people - if you win this war your country will be very close to perfection in my eyes. Well, apart from the amount of drive-thru restaurants... what's that about?

[devil_ad_vocate]

drive through restaurants? So we can get fat twice as fast!

[thebigbadbutch]

Unless it's In & Out. I swear they came up with that name as some sort of sick joke. Every time I go there at least 5 cars are waiting for food.

[screamingintune]

omg, this. I ate there when I went to SoCal a couple months ago and I had to wait frickin' forever.

And then the burger wasn't even nearly as good as everyone says it was.

[karmanotdharma]

I think it's cute that this commercial has Rick Scott for it's spokesperson. That's not appropriate at all.