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More Rick Scott Lies |
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Rick Scott, the Bernie Madoff of health care, is up on the air again with another $1 million of his ill-gotten gains. It’s not hard to debunk his latest lie. From the Media Matters Action Network:
Here’s the full ad watch, plus a bit of facts from the doctors you see in the ad, who’s words have been edited pretty carefully to make Scott’s point.
As Igor Volsky at the Wonk Room points out, Scott is again using a straw man argument to mislead the public:
Obama has rejected a British/Canadian-like single-payer reform and most policy makers are looking for a “uniquely American solution” that preserves the employer-sponsored system and creates a hybrid public-private partnership. In other words, American reforms would look a bit like the Swiss health system in which the government “leaves the provision of health care and health insurance in private hands” but creates a marketplace within which insurers can compete on price, and not avoid insuring the sickest patients.
Lies, misleading comparisons, lots of money. All in a day’s work for the disgraced Rick Scott.
(also posted at the NOW! blog)
