Conservatives Co-Opt Christmas: ‘Tis The Season To Kill Health Care Reform
Conservatives turned out on Capitol Hill today for a “Code Red Rally” to “kill” health care reform legislation, organized by groups such as the right-wing Americans for Prosperity (AFP). The Tax Day Tea Party website promoted the event by appealing to Americans to make a “sacrifice” right before Christmas and promised plans for a controversial “die-in“:As usual conservatives make up their facts out of thin air. The government has been in the health-care business for years - Medicare, active duty military care and veterans medical care. People are not dying or are going to die from much needed health care reform. Americans - men, women and children are dying from lack of insurance - 45,000 Annual Deaths Linked To Lack Of Health Insurance. I'd say shame on conservatives, but they do not seem to have a sense of shame.
We call this plan “Government Waiting Rooms”. The intention is to go inside the Senate offices and hallways, and play out the role of patients waiting for treatment in government controlled medical facilities. As the day goes on some of us will pretend to die from our untreated illnesses and collapse on the floor. [...]
