If you stopped one hundred random people on the streets of your Alabama city or town and asked them "Who is Betsy McCaughey?", I wager not one in ten could answer accurately. But if you ask the same hundred folks "What are 'death panels'", they would immediately tell you they are an Obama plot to kill old people.
Some of these folks are actually quite intelligent; a few have educational backgrounds that would lead one to expect better of them, but what they have in common is a blind reliance on the right wing media for all their current-affairs education. Let me discuss this a bit below the fold.
Recently on Facebook, a couple of friends of mine agreed that, after the Obama Health Care Reform plan takes effect, there might be cost savings from the killing off of the elderly, or the implementation of the death panels might actually drive costs up. Hmmm...
What seems to be missing here is the consideration that there might not actually be any such critter as death panels, since nothing like that is actually in the bill. No, the conversation went on blithely ignorant of that fact, until I stuck my left wing radical nose into their chat.
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