Rightbloggers, Sarah Palin celebrate failure of Obama Hitler health-care speech
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Roy Edroso is unwell. So this week’s Rightbloggers: Exploring the right Wing Blogosphere is a recent hit (and as always, appears courtesy of our sister paper in New York City, Village Voice).
Congressman Joe Wilson’s cry of “Lie!” at President Obama’s health-care speech had not stopped reverberating in the halls of Congress before rightbloggers declared it a failure.
refutes Obama’s claim that preventative care would save money.
“Preventative medicine saves lives, it does not save money,” they say.
“In fact it cost more money. Preventative care means that you have to
test and pay for all people, even one’s who never end up developing any
type of disease.” Thus we spend more money and save lives — two things
conservatives adamantly oppose.
QandO finds
failure in presumed success with Obama’s public option. “If the public
option does not have the same ‘overhead’ going towards ‘profits,
excessive administrative costs and executive salaries,'” they reason,
“then won’t it be passing those saving on to consumers? And if so,
won’t that price the private plans out of the market? After all, why
would anyone choose to pay more for coverage if they don’t have to?”
This dangerously efficient system must be stopped, or insurance
companies will be more likely to perish than patients.
