Murkowski: Don't tell lies about the health-care reform bill

[RandySF]

http://www.adn.com/life/health/story/895431.html

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Tuesday told an Anchorage crowd that critics of health care reform, the summer's hottest political topic, aren't helping the debate by throwing out highly charged assertions not based in fact.

"It does us no good to incite fear in people by saying that there's these end-of-life provisions, these death panels," Murkowski, a Republican, said. "Quite honestly, I'm so offended at that terminology because it absolutely isn't (in the bill). There is no reason to gin up fear in the American public by saying things that are not included in the bill."

[iamjoy]

1. She's Right Of Course

There may be good reasons to be against the bill. When they junk up the debate with false statements deliberately intended to stoke people's fears we don't get to discuss that.

I wonder how many give aways to the insurance company this bill will have and how nobody will be paying attention to that because of all these sideshows.

[PVnRT]

2. Ha ha, first Isakson, now Murkowski

Even the non-moderate Republicans are starting to tell the brownshirts to fuck off. This is fun.

[Winterblues]

3. IOW.... Sarah Palin STOP your LIES

From a Republican no less. I truly am shocked... some sense of civility does actually exist among a few (very few) Republicans..

[rvablue]

4. You're wrong, Senator, there is a reason for Palin to "gin up fear"

It's all she has in order to stay semi-relevant with the deluded, angry portion of society who will buy her book and fill her pockets with coin.

With that said, even though you oppose this reform, I thank you for trying to keep the debate calm and factual.