Death Records Now

GOP hints Dems would deny Republicans health care
From Associated Press
August 28, 2009 1:42 PM EDT
WASHINGTON – The Republican national party has mailed a fundraising appeal suggesting Democrats might use an overhaul of the health care system to deny medical treatment to Republicans.

A questionnaire accompanying the appeal says the government could check voting registration records, "prompting fears that GOP voters might be discriminated against for medical treatment in a Democrat-imposed health care rationing system."

It asks, "Does this possibility concern you?"

Katie Wright, a spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee, said the question was "inartfully worded."

But she said people should worry because government officials would have access to personal financial and medical data.

"The RNC doesn’t try to scare people," said Wright. "We’re just trying to get the facts out on health care. And that’s what we do every day."

Jon Vogel, executive director of the Democratic House campaign organization, called the GOP letter "shameless fear-mongering."

In a fundraising e-mail of his own seeking to raise $100,000 by Aug. 31, Vogel wrote the Republican accusation was "just a preview of the falsehoods, fabrications and outright lies Republicans will be pushing when Congress returns in September."

The allegation is the latest instance in which some critics of the health care effort have made inflammatory unfounded claims – such as conservatives who claimed the legislation would create "death panels" that they said could lead to euthanizing elderly people.

The suggestion that Republicans might not receive care is included in a "Future of American Health Care Survey" containing 13 questions, most of which are critical of the Democratic health care effort. The technique, referred to as a "push poll," is used often in political campaigns by both parties and is designed to spread negative information, not to sample public opinion.

Another question asks, "Do you believe it is justified to ration health care regardless of whether an individual has contributed to the cost of the treatment?"

The survey is accompanied by a two-page letter signed by Michael Steele, chairman of the national Republican party. The letter accuses Democrats of "moving swiftly to bring European-style socialized medicine here," but makes no mention of the possibility that Republicans might be denied coverage.

Wright did not immediately respond when asked who had crafted the wording of the survey questions, and which GOP officials had signed off on it.

The questionnaire was first reported by The Washington Independent, a progressive-leaning nonprofit news and politics Web site based in Washington.

No I do not but however it is an intriguing idea not without merit.Its obvious appeal would be that self-professed sturdy REAL AMERICANS
could put into practice values of self-reliance which they so cherish.Unless these exponents of LIBERTY have not noticed medical care is already rationed by INSURANCE COMPANIES whose only allegiance is to profit realized by denying health care and treatment.

So many of the Republican Party’s largest donors are industries that are lethal to American lives. They include:

-Tobacco Industry
(cough cough 600k US lung cancer deaths a year)
-the gun lobby/NRA
(gun violence on the rise w/ most of this increase caused by the 1% of gun shop owners not doing backround checks required by law)
-Pollution caused by unlimited drilling
(no human death but detremental to wildlife in Alaska)
-War profiteering.
(HUGE business in war manufacturing. 847 US troops dead so far in 2007. + 4 more and 2007 will surpass 2004 as the bloodiest year for US involvent in Iraq so far)
-The Health care industry
(record rise in uninsured/rising insurance premium cause rise in late detection and early death in Americans)
-The billion dollar drug industry

Somehow I dont think this is what the GOP VOTERS had in mind when Republican polticians lie through their teeth about the GOP being a party of life

Why the obvious disconect between voters and donors?

The disconnect occurs because there are two Republican parties, just as there are two sets of justice and, if you want to go as far as John Edwards does, there are two Americas.

Worse yet, middle class Republicans accept this as a fact of life, so they vote for the party that appeases them on one or two limited issues, such as forcing some women to have babies or codifying discrimination against gays.