The New York Times ran a “news analysis” today in their online publication entitled “The Fading Public Option” (Robert Pear). This article is about how the public option plan proposed in the America’s Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009 (HR 3200) is being allowed to die before the House considers the Act in the whole. Mr. Pear writes, in part:

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Is it honorable to be a liberal? Yes. Is it honorable to be a conservative? Yes, of course. However, there’s nothing honorable in preaching and shouting what one must know is a lie. One such lie is that the Democrats in Congress have included a provision in the health care reform legislation proposed in the House of Representatives and Senate to establish “death panels” whose responsibility is to remove from our midst those who are desperately sick, elderly, or impaired, such as those with Down Syndrome.

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Recently, a family member sent me a copy of a document that purportedly examines the Obama health care reform legislation. This document was apparently prepared and issued by the Liberty Counsel, which advertises itself as “A nationwide public interest religious law firm.”

The problem with the document is that is contains either lies or serious misinterpretations of fact. Oh, I know that saying a law firm may have lied may be an invitation to a court room, but…

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The real Alamo

In the minds and eyes of some, “socialized medicine” is the product of socialism and must be resisted at all costs. (Think: “Alamo.”) Critics decry what they call “socialized medicine” at every turn. One claims that the federal government funds medical research “…from taxes confiscated from the people at the point of a gun*.”

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