Telling the Truth About Health Care Reform

By Jeff Severns Guntzel
Published on August 18, 2009
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With the public option clinging to life and the health care debate drowning in a sea of hyperbole and lies, efforts to insert truth and nuance into the debate are constant, if not entirely successful.

Morning Edition spent eight minutes debunking myths about Britain’s National Health Service in, which Republican Congressman Charles Grassley says would kill Ted Kennedy if it could only get its hands on him.

The Daily Dish has collected all of its View from Your Sickbed posts in one place. This moving series of posts from Daily Dish readers is as damning an indictment of the current sytem as any I’ve seen.

Foreign Policy takes the side door into the debate, placing a summary of the decisions that have shaped the current U.S. health care system at the end of a list of the world’s worst healthcare reforms.

Meanwhile, the battle to discredit the Obama “death panels” rages. A new poll finds that 57% of Republicans either believe or are “not sure” about the truth of claims that President Obama and supporters of health care would murder the terminally ill. Thank you (again) Sarah Palin.

Sources: Morning EditionDaily DishForeign Policy

Image by José Goulão, licensed under Creative Commons.

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