politifact.com - 10/27/2009
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If you've been paying attention to the health care debate, you've no doubt heard these buzzwords from opponents of the Democratic plan: Rationing. Euthanasia. Death Panels. Socialized medicine. Canada and Britain. They have been written on posters, yelled at town hall meetings, and repeated by ...
fivefeetoffury.com - 10/21/2009
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Ezra Levant comments on the new "Press Freedom"
rankings, where Canada plunged from #13 to #19: The...
very first Canadian to be hit with a cease and desist order under section 13 (back before the Internet, when it only applied to telephone answering machines) refused to comply, and was ...
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Canada now ranked less free than former fascist, Soviet ...
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Grassley: Public option will lead to rationing, denial of care
Iowa Independent —
... Politifact, the Pulitzer Prize winning Web site run by journalists at the St. Petersburg Times, concluded earlier this year that rationing is already taking place under the current health care system. There is no reason to believe that practice will end due to health care reforms being debated in Congress, but there is also no reason to believe it will get worse. ...
Kimberly Guilfoyle Channels Glenn Beck
News Hounds —
... a public option which the House bill contains. What’s absolutely certain, however, is that none of the plans “socialize” medicine. As PolitiFact wrote, “It's fair game to state an opinion that you think this is where the system is heading. It's reasonable, for example, to say, ‘I'm worried that a public option could lead to socialized medicine.’ But it is not accurate to describe the Democrats' plan as socialized medicine.” (my emphasis) ...
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Rationing health care -
chicagotribune.com 9/17/2009 — "Rationing" is one of the scariest words in the health-care debate. It conjures up apocalyptic nightmare images from "Soylent Green," the sci-fi thriller about a future in which the old and weak are quietly lured into early extinction for the sake of ...
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we Remembering?
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Rationing By Any Other Name
meganmcardle.theatlantic.com 8/11/2009 — Robert Wright notes that "we already ration health care; we just let the market do the rationing." This is a true point made by the proponents of health care reform. But I'm not sure why it's supposed to be so interesting. You could ...
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