{"id":358098,"date":"2010-02-24T12:15:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T17:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=77556"},"modified":"2010-02-24T12:15:03","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T17:15:03","slug":"gop-still-misleading-with-socialized-medicine-scare-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/358098","title":{"rendered":"GOP Still Misleading With Socialized Medicine Scare Tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/83271-hatch-dont-compare-gops-prescription-drugs-bill-to-health-reform\" >Appearing<\/a> on CNBC yesterday, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) decried the Democrats&#8217; plans to cover tens of millions of uninsured Americans by &#8220;mandat[ing] that people have to buy a government insurance policy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Actually, no.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed individual mandate, which doesn&#8217;t apply to everyone, would require most Americans to buy <em>private<\/em> insurance on government-backed marketplaces, called exchanges. The government insurance policy Hatch refers to &#8212; commonly known as <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/45536\/baucus-obama-push-for-bipartisan-health-reform-threatens-public-plan\" >the public option<\/a> &#8212; wasn&#8217;t included in the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/72071\/senate-passes-historic-if-diluted-health-reform-bill\" >Senate-passed bill<\/a> and it wasn&#8217;t a part of the White House proposal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/extra\/features\/us\/jan-june10\/healthcare_02-23.html\" >unveiled<\/a> earlier this week.<span id=\"more-77556\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hatch, a member of the Senate Finance Committee, knows this, but evidently doesn&#8217;t see a problem with publicly misrepresenting the nature of the proposed reforms. It&#8217;s not as irresponsible as <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/washwire\/2009\/12\/22\/palins-death-panels-charge-named-lie-of-the-year\/tab\/article\/\" >death panel claims<\/a>, but it&#8217;s disingenuous nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no wonder that there&#8217;s so much opposition to health care reform &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/74562\/when-opposition-to-health-care-reform-isnt-really-opposition\" > until folks are told what&#8217;s in the bills<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appearing on CNBC yesterday, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) decried the Democrats&#8217; plans to cover tens of millions of uninsured Americans by &#8220;mandat[ing] that people have to buy a government insurance policy.&#8221; Actually, no. The proposed individual mandate, which doesn&#8217;t apply to everyone, would require most Americans to buy private insurance on government-backed marketplaces, called exchanges. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}