The Secret Right-Wing Strategy on Health Care—Exposed!

[kaygore]

This is not only a great read but it also gives us hope for true health care reform if we can keep the pressure on those whores in Congress and the Senate, who are financed by the health insurance and drug companies, and if we can keep on message:

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/healthwellness/139889/the_secret_right-wing_strategy_on_health_care%E2%80%94exposed!/

"Conservative pollster Frank Luntz recently provided right wingers on Capitol Hill a secret 28-page memo entitled The Language of Healthcare 2009—which has leaked! The memo was intended to offer a message framing strategy to defeat President Obama’s plan to provide health care for all. But the document is more useful to progressives than conservatives."

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"First, progressive pollsters have been entirely right about health care. Conservatives who oppose reform have very little public support."

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"Second, the best conservative strategy is to frame progressive legislation as a 'government takeover' of health care, resulting in bureaucracy, delay, and loss of patient choice. Progressives must block this argument and counterattack."

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"Third, conservatives can’t succeed without offering their own plan for health care reform. Progressives must hound conservatives to lay out that plan—because it will be horrific."

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"But Luntz doesn’t know what right wingers should say they’re for. He doesn’t have a vision for their legislation. All he can do is recommend vague language about a conservative plan..."

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The whole memo is available at the following:
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/frank-luntz-the-language-of-healthcare-20091.pdf

[BrklynLiberal]

1. George Lakoff George Lakoff George Lakoff George Lakoff

http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc1503/article_1319.shtml

[OHDEM]

2. Insurance and Pharma give big money to the GOP....

I know that a friend of ours in insurance industry gave somewhere around $40K to PACs and candidates last election. Plus he hosted Bush personally for a fundraiser in his home at $10K to $25K a head.