red states rule
05-21-2013, 02:57 AM
Anything that gets race baiter and scam artist Rev Al this upset must be a good thing
And voting to repeal Obamacare is a good thing
On Friday's PoliticsNation on MSNBC, host Al Sharpton lambasted House Republicans for repeatedly voting to repeal ObamaCare, calling it a "scandal" and an "outrage," as he seemed to cite a questionable study from a left-wing source from 2009 claiming that 45,000 people a year die because they lack health insurance. Sharpton began the segment:
You've got to hand it to the Republicans. In a week when they've obsessed over scandals, they've managed to miss an actual scandal. That's their 37th vote to repeal the President's health care law. Trying to deny a law that would literally give health care to millions of Americans is not just a waste of time, it's an outrage.
After a clip of Republican House Speaker John Boehner, the MSNBC host brought up the "45,000" number and attacked Tea Party "extremism." Sharpton:
The scandal here is that there is a real urgent health crisis in America right now. Forty-five thousand Americans die every year because they don't have health insurance. Nearly 50 million are uninsured, and more than seven million of those are children. But the Republicans just don't care. They just want to play the political game of repeal, repeal, repeal that will go nowwhere. It's ugly politics, and it shows the continuing power of Tea Party extremism governing today's Republican party.
On screen was displayed the number "45,000" as being the number of Americans who die yearly because they lack health insurance, with the CDC, Harvard Medical School, and the Urban Institute cited as sources. But, as noted by (http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2009/11/21/abcs-johnson-recites-canard-lack-health-insurance-kills-45-000-annually) the MRC's Brent Baker in 2009, the study originated with a left-wing group, Physicians for a National Health Program (http://www.pnhp.org/), that seeks a single payer health care system.
Sharpton ended up fretting that some Americans will not utilize ObamaCare because the Republican attempts to repeal the program have fooled them into thinking it no longer exists:
When you look at the fact that the political game is breaking a lot of confidence and misinformation, let me give you an example of what really bothers me because it's having a real effect. The Washington Post reports last month, the Kaiser Family Foundation polled Americans on whether the Affordable Care Act is still law. Twelve percent of Americans -- that's about one in eight people -- think that the Congress repealed the Affordable Care Act. Another 23 percent aren't sure or refuse to answer the question.
He added:
So this political game, E.J., is having some impact because if people think it's been repealed or they're not sure, they will not do what they need to do to become part of it as it goes into full implementation. And that is absolutely a shame.
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2013/05/20/msnbc-slams-scandal-gop-vote-repeal-obamacare-uses-debunked-study#ixzz2TuapkC00
And voting to repeal Obamacare is a good thing
On Friday's PoliticsNation on MSNBC, host Al Sharpton lambasted House Republicans for repeatedly voting to repeal ObamaCare, calling it a "scandal" and an "outrage," as he seemed to cite a questionable study from a left-wing source from 2009 claiming that 45,000 people a year die because they lack health insurance. Sharpton began the segment:
You've got to hand it to the Republicans. In a week when they've obsessed over scandals, they've managed to miss an actual scandal. That's their 37th vote to repeal the President's health care law. Trying to deny a law that would literally give health care to millions of Americans is not just a waste of time, it's an outrage.
After a clip of Republican House Speaker John Boehner, the MSNBC host brought up the "45,000" number and attacked Tea Party "extremism." Sharpton:
The scandal here is that there is a real urgent health crisis in America right now. Forty-five thousand Americans die every year because they don't have health insurance. Nearly 50 million are uninsured, and more than seven million of those are children. But the Republicans just don't care. They just want to play the political game of repeal, repeal, repeal that will go nowwhere. It's ugly politics, and it shows the continuing power of Tea Party extremism governing today's Republican party.
On screen was displayed the number "45,000" as being the number of Americans who die yearly because they lack health insurance, with the CDC, Harvard Medical School, and the Urban Institute cited as sources. But, as noted by (http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2009/11/21/abcs-johnson-recites-canard-lack-health-insurance-kills-45-000-annually) the MRC's Brent Baker in 2009, the study originated with a left-wing group, Physicians for a National Health Program (http://www.pnhp.org/), that seeks a single payer health care system.
Sharpton ended up fretting that some Americans will not utilize ObamaCare because the Republican attempts to repeal the program have fooled them into thinking it no longer exists:
When you look at the fact that the political game is breaking a lot of confidence and misinformation, let me give you an example of what really bothers me because it's having a real effect. The Washington Post reports last month, the Kaiser Family Foundation polled Americans on whether the Affordable Care Act is still law. Twelve percent of Americans -- that's about one in eight people -- think that the Congress repealed the Affordable Care Act. Another 23 percent aren't sure or refuse to answer the question.
He added:
So this political game, E.J., is having some impact because if people think it's been repealed or they're not sure, they will not do what they need to do to become part of it as it goes into full implementation. And that is absolutely a shame.
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2013/05/20/msnbc-slams-scandal-gop-vote-repeal-obamacare-uses-debunked-study#ixzz2TuapkC00