The GOP’s Latest Dirty Trick – A Fake California Covered Healthcare Website

[Addison]

By Doug Porter, San Diego Free Press

After two months of regularly hijacking the 24 hour news cycle with horror stories about the Affordable Healthcare Act, Republicans here in California reached a new low this week. They rolled out a fake Covered California website via mailings to constituents (apparently paid for by taxpayers) from GOP Assembly members. Taxpayers also paid for creation of the faux website, registered with GoDaddy.com

Rather than inform users about their healthcare options, clicking on highlighted topics like “Don’t Have Insurance” leads to negative news stories, filled with misinformation or out of date data. The idea, of course, is to discourage people from signing up; part of the GOP strategy to make Obamacare collapse due to lack of interest.

This is shameless and breathtaking in the scope of its misdirection and misinformation. If you had any doubts about the fact that these people care for nobody but the rich, visiting this bit of Astroturf on the web should put your concerns to rest.

A visit to the “Don’t Have Insurance” tab tells the user all about penalties and includes a penalty calculator. No mention is made of potential benefits and no access is provided towards determining the actual costs of health insurance. Visitors are also warned that, should they actually want insurance, they’ll just be subsidizing those shiftless lazy moochers known as “sick people”.

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http://sandiegofreepress.org/2013/12/the-gops-latest-dirty-trick-a-fake-california-covered-healthcare-website/

[Addison]

1. This is a new low for the GOP, and that's saying something. n/t

[TDale313]

2. I hate these people.

How f**kin' cruel can you be to make it your life's mission by any underhanded means necessary to make sure people in need don't get health care?

[AlinPA]

3. Of course it will be covered on CNN, MSNBC and Fox. Not.

[Bill USA]

4. whether it's 1931 or 2013 some things, like the Republicans, never change. They are zombies..

... they walk and talk just like real people. But they have no souls.

[font size="+1"]Migrant Mother, Florence Thompson - 1936 - enjoying an earlier period of Trickle Down .... prosperity.[/font]

[SummerSnow]

5. They went low when they picked her...

and her...

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and them...




But THIS is really low

[Blue Owl]

6. The GOP Trifecta: Lying, Cheating, & Stealing

n/t

[1StrongBlackMan]

7. One would think ...

Or better, I would think that if I were seeking something ... anything ... and I went to a friend, trusted or casual, to help me find it ... and they, instead and deliberately, guided me to something other than what I was looking for ... I wouldn't look to them to guide me again.

For example, if I asked for directions to "Point A" and someone provided me with a map indicating a route that took me over a mountain, through a swamp, then through a desert, I might think: "Wow ... I really don't want to go there; but I really need to get there", so I'd lace up my boots and get to walking.

But when I got to where I was going - because I really needed to get there - (or, worse, had to turn back because the journey was too difficult), and discovered that there was a much easier route ... a route that the person knew about ... I wouldn't be upset with the easier route, no matter how difficult the easier route actually was, 'd be pissed at the person that, knowingly, put me on the difficult path.