Cross-posted at Facing South
We're now two weeks into the Town Hall Uprising that has rocked members of Congress coming home for their August recess. The signs and screeds have been uncannily similar: "Obamacare" will kill your grandma. Bureaucrats will choose your doctors. We're headed towards socialized medicine, a slippery slope towards communism in the USA.
But whether coming from a hot-headed protester or a former governor of Alaska, the rhetorical bombs share at least two things in common: One, they have little basis in reality. Two, they have little if anything to do with real health reform. And the sooner reform advocates adjust their strategy and tactics to these realities, we'll have a much better chance of ensuring this once-in-a-generation opportunity to reform our health care system doesn't slip away.
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