My "pretty-well informed" REPUBLICAN brother didn't know what

[Mind_your_head]

"single-payer" meant when we talked about health-care/health-insurance :eyes: reform this past weekend. I had to TELL him what single-payer meant! This was a TOTALLY new term for him.

THAT told me that REPUBLICANS don't even have this on their 'radar-screen'....they have to go up the "edjumacation ladder". He wasn't necessarily against it, but being caught 'totally unaware' had to nominally fight against it, b/c *I* was the opponent....the little sister, "other guy"

There are a LOT of things that Dems & Repubs agree upon.
MYH

[wroberts189]

1. They ALWAYS have their facts wrong!

I buggers me to death. When you get into an argument over the facts .. there is no changing minds.

[Hawkeye-X]

2. You can tell your brother that turning off the radio and listening to other people talk

in public. Encourage him to go out and just LISTEN.

He'll get a real better idea.

[pnwmom]

3. So how did you explain it to him? n/t

[SpiralHawk]

4. They have sucked up the willful misinformation pumped out by the

corporate republicon crony borg.

[WVRICK13]

5. "Pretty-well informed" Republican

what great satire.

[Ruby the Liberal]

6. What cracks me up is all of the 65+ crowd ranting at the teabagging events

Lunacy.

[BolivarianHero]

7. I know...

They thought they were "safe" from having to live under a Black President.

[raccoon]

9. They're the ones who really piss me off. "I've got mine, you go drop dead,"

must be their philosophy. :puke:

[FormerDittoHead]

8. They usually claim they get their information "...from a variety of sources..."

Occasionally, they'll watch ABC nightly news, or Jon Stossel on 20/20 and because Rush told 'em, think that's the "left" side of the news...

[alfredo]

10. Stossel is going to Faux news. Their various sources are Fox, worldnetdaily

Insight, Stormfront, Drudge, and freerepublic.

[renate]

11. this is significant, I think

I can see how the term "single-payer" would be off-putting to someone who didn't take the two seconds necessary to think about it... we know how Republicans hate that dreaded word "PAYER."

Seriously... I wonder how much of this sturm und drang could have been avoided by a more artful choice of words on the Democrats' part. Sad that public policy should have to be treated like advertising, but I suppose that's nothing new. And I wonder whether it's too late to start using different words to describe the plan.