{"id":7466,"date":"2012-03-25T13:50:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T20:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7466"},"modified":"2012-03-25T13:50:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T20:50:12","slug":"five-gop-obamacare-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/25\/five-gop-obamacare-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Five GOP Obamacare Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the Affordable Care Act (ACA) faces the Supreme Court Injustices, I am amazed at how little the general public understands about this law.  This is largely do to extreme misinformation by the Republican Party and their Ministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise<\/em>.  Some of these lies have been repeated so often, without challenge in the MSM, that even many Democrats believe them.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"SCOTUS3\"The Supreme Court will hear three days of arguments<\/a> <\/font>starting Mondayon whether President Obama\u2019s Affordable Care Act is constitutional. Twenty-six states have filed challenges to the health-care reform law. The main issue, on which the lower courts have split, is whether Congress had the power to pass this law under the Constitution\u2019s commerce clause. The answers to that and other questions are clouded by misperceptions about the law itself. Let\u2019s debunk them.<\/font><\/p>\n

1. The \u201cindividual mandate\u201d forces everyone to buy health insurance…<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

2. Only the individual mandate is at stake in the Supreme Court case…<\/font><\/strong><\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

3. If the court upholds the health-care law, it means Congress has the power to require Americans to purchase any product\u2026<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

4. The law is socialist…<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

5. The law is an extraordinary intrusion into liberty… <\/strong>[emphasis original<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Washington Post<\/a>><\/p>\n

Now what I have done is given you only the Republican lies themselves.  The original article has a fairly extensive explanation of each one.  You owe it to yourself to click through and read it in its entirety.<\/font><\/p>\n

To be clear, I still support single-payer coverage for all Americans.  However, the ACA represents the best Obama could get, when Republicans in the Senate, supported by a small group of DINOs, made the 60 vote threshold to overcome a Republican filibuster in the Senate almost impossible to achieve.  While it falls far short of single payer, it does have several provisions that are benefit Main Street America far to return to pre-ACA, and it represents the first small step on the path to universal, single payer coverage.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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