Health care reform misinformation

We keep hearing, over and over again, from anti-abortion Republicans and Democrats, that they cannot support health care reform because they believe it provides government funding for abortion.

They are wrong.

Here's a piece from Slate magazine shooting down the notion.

This erroneous idea is just one of the many idiotic bits of misinformation that is holding up health care reform and galvanizing opposition to fixing what everybody agrees is a broken system.

If you oppose health care reform, do it with facts, not myths. Yet, as was demonstrated repeatedly at last week's summit on the issue, the myths endure. The talking points have taken on a life of their own.

Again and again, opponents of health care reform -- many of whom are in the pockets of big insurance companies -- repeat things that are simply not true. That's no way to debate this. Some Congressional opponents have demonstrated either startling ignorance or craven duplicity in their rhetoric attacking the bills. At the summit, they repeatedly demanding that certain aspects of the issue be addressed in the bill. Those aspects turned out to be addressed, but that wasn't enough.

Again, it's clear that the politics of this matter have trumped the idea whether this will be good for people who, more and more, are having a hard time affording basic medical care.

The debate has little to do whether it's the right thing to do, or whether it will help people; it's about winning.

Opponents of health care reform are simply obstructionists who will oppose anything the White House comes up with. They deserve to be ignored. And they are failing miserably in their duty to represent the interests of the people they supposedly represent.

Oh, that's right. Many of them are performing that duty. Problem is, they represent people who profit from the system remaining the same while the rest of us struggle to afford decent health insurance.