span style="font-family:arial;"biJune 24, 2009, 7:45 a.m./i/bbr /br /centerbWhere Do They Get This Stuff?/b/centerbr /Ever wonder where and how the opponents of universal-single-payer health care are able to come up with their outrageous assertions?br /br /Here's a video that reveals the answer:br /br /object width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/AzDwXr9szxwamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/AzDwXr9szxwamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"/embed/objectbr /br /This video of a "Late Night Brainstorming Session" by what appears to be four ad agency executives for HAARM (Healthy Americans Against Reform of Medicine) is a work of parody by SEIU's a href="http://haarm.org/"Change That Works/a campaign. What's scary is how close it tracks what does seem to be the strategy of those who oppose meaningful health care for all Americans -- especially given the insertions into this video of actual video from opponents' talking points on television.br /center_______________/centerbr /"John Barleykorn" has been a constructive critic of this blog since it began three years ago, a sort of "loyal opposition." His comments have often caused me to do a double-take on my own thinking.br /br /And so it was with his recent comment added to my a href="http://fromdc2iowa.blogspot.com/2009/06/universal-single-payer-necessity-now.html""Universal Single-Payer a Necessity Now,"/a June 19:br /br /blockquoteJohn Barleykorn said...br /br / How is a single payer system going to stop someone from eating a Big Mac everyday and getting heart disease?br /br / What is the responsibility of the individual?/blockquoteIt raises a serious range of questions that could support a very lengthy discussion -- or master's thesis.br /br /To cut to the chase, and remove any question about my own position, I'm siding with one of my favorite theology doctors: "Let he who has no bad health habits cast the first bed pan."br /br /imore to come/ibr /br /center# # #/centerdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30130444-6869173722087528601?l=fromdc2iowa.blogspot.com'//div
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