Solid piece by CBS News titled “10 Health Care Reform Myths,” which indentifies some of the misinformation coming from both sides in the reform debate. One to keep in mind is the myth that “a healthcare bill will bring quick changes.” As CBS notes:
Significant provisions of the health care legislation under consideration — including the federal health insurance exchange, the public option, subsidies and the employer mandate — would not go into effect until 2013.
Mr. Obama addressed this fact at an Ohio town hall.
Most of these changes would be phased in over several years,” he said. “So it’s not as if you’re going to wake up tomorrow and suddenly the health care system is all changed completely. We are going to phase this in, in an intelligent, deliberate way.”
The most creative of the myths is the one supported by House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and Republican Policy Committee Chairman Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI), who said in a joint statement last month that reform legislation in the House includes provisions that “may start us down a treacherous path toward government-encouraged euthanasia.”
As they say in Texas: “Well, cut off my legs and call me Shorty!”
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