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Hey! Did you know that on page 425 of Barack Obama's health care bill, it mandates that everyone on Social Security MUST get counseling every five years to learn about ways to commit suicide? Or the government will do it for you?!?!?

And did you know that health care will be denied based on age? Based on Race?

And did you know that you won't be able to pay for your own health care even if you can afford it, because that "wouldn't be fair" to those who can't? So you will be forced to take the government plan or be fined?

Well, neither did I, but there may be a good reason for that: Beacause it's BULLSHIT!!!!

That, of course, isn't stopping the far right wing from circulating the above as gospel in its efforts to derail the passage of any meaningful health care reform! Reform that Democrats have been trying to pass since Harry Truman was president more than 50 years ago, but that Republicans have been successfully stonewalling every year since then.

Health insurance in this country, as we all know, is a for-profit business. You give your health insurance company money every week, and they're supposed to pay your medical bills when they come due. In order to make money, the health insurance companies need to take in more of your money than they put out to cover your bills.

So the health insurance companies focus on two things to increase profitability: First, they try to make you pay as much money as possible IN. Second, they try to pay as little as possible back OUT. They have high deductibles and low lifetime caps! As you can see, their first priority really isn't your good health.

Obama's health care reform is a direct threat to the profit margins and executive compensation of health insurance companies.

This would be major competition for the fairly monopolized industry.

So, in order to compete, health insurance companies would have to figure out ways to provide better health care at lower cost to the people who buy their health insurance policies. This would hurt their profit margin.

So, as you might imagine, health insurance companies and those who have a vested interest in their continued and immense profitability (such as lobbyists and anyone else, including politicians who receive contributions from said health insurance companies) are working very hard to derail meaningful health care reform. This would hurt their profit margin..

And in defense of their profitability, you know what? They lie.

Republican leaders-- especially John Boehner (OH-$1,206,472 + $904,156), Mike Pence (IN-$453,644 + $160,700), Paul Ryan (WI-$685,714 + $492,651), Miss McConnell (KY- $2,769,168 + $936,057), Roy Blunt (MO-$1,660,898 + $556,682) and Eric Cantor (VA-$1,410,724 + $706,674)-- have been all over the media hysterically lying and spreading disinformation about the health care bill and earning the legalized bribes they've taken from the Medical-Industrial Complex and the Big Insurance companies.

These whores are using the Hate Talk Radio network, ginning up the fear, so that people who listen to Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, Beck, Ingraham, Savage, etc are now paranoid that health care reform is tantamount to euthanasia!

Under the plan, Medicare would reimburse doctors for one session every five years to confer with a patient about his or her advance directives, or living will and how to ensure those preferences are followed. The counseling sessions would be voluntary.

But on the Hate Talk Express, religious e-mail lists and Internet blogs, the proposal has been described as "guiding you in how to die," "an ORDER from the Government to end your life," promoting "death care" and, in the words of anti-abortion terrorist leader Randall Terry, an attempt to "kill Granny."

Betsy McCaughey, who screwed us over the health-care overhaul 16 years ago, told Fred D. Thompson (R-Tenn.) that mandatory counseling sessions with Medicare beneficiaries would "tell them how to end their life sooner" and would teach the elderly how to "decline nutrition . . . and cut your life short."

She lied to kill Clinton's health bill, she is still lying today!

Yet my personal favorite...The think tank that all of the corporate whores are citing, their non partisan "Proof" the Lewin Group, is wholly owned by UnitedHealth Group, one of the nation's largest insurers.