New Video Compares GOP Healthcare Reform Critics to Hollywood Horror Movies
With Republicans seizing on polls showing that the public is concerned about the reach and cost of President Obama's healthcare reforms, the pro-Obama group Americans United for Change has just produced a video comparing the naysayers to Hollywood's scariest horror show stars. Titled the Republican Health Care Horror Show, the video picks up on Obama's earlier warnings that the GOP will roll out the attacks.
Spoofing Dawn of the Dead and featuring some of the silver screen's fave horror stars, the group focuses on the words the GOP is using to criticize the health plan, such as takeover, rationing, and bureaucratic.
"No, it's not Halloween, but you wouldn't know that by listening those on the right. With all the terms they've been throwing around to scare people about healthcare reform, the GOP is practically writing their own horror film. What they are really afraid of is that competition will eat into the profits of their buddies in the insurance industry," says Tom McMahon, acting director of the Americans United for Change. "Meanwhile, the healthcare system is in shreds. Costs have skyrocketed out of control and Americans are suffering.
"Today, we're unveiling this web ad to shine the light on these false attacks and tell the Republicans that Americans are smarter than that. As shown by recent numbers, 76 percent of Americans want a healthcare system that offers a real choice between keeping the health insurance they have and a public health insurance plan that would compete with private insurers to drive down costs. Fear mongering is not going to help. So far, that's all the Republicans have offered.
"The American people know what's really scary-letting the insurance industry control our health care," McMahon says.
Here's the video:
Check out our gallery of Whispers political cartoons.
Follow Paul and Nikki on Twitter.
Read more Washington Whispers.
Reader Comments
Healthcare crisis
AMERICA’S NATIONAL HEALTHCARE EMERGENCY!
It’s official. America and the World are now in a GLOBAL PANDEMIC. A World EPIDEMIC with potential catastrophic consequences for ALL of the American people. The first PANDEMIC in 41 years. And WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES will have to face this PANDEMIC with the 37th worst quality of healthcare in the developed World.
STAND READY AMERICA TO SEIZE CONTROL OF YOUR NATIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM.
We spend over twice as much of our GDP on healthcare as any other country in the World. And Individual American spend about ten times as much out of pocket on healthcare as any other people in the World. All because of GREED! And the PRIVATE FOR PROFIT healthcare system in America.
And while all this is going on, some members of congress seem mostly concern about how to protect the corporate PROFITS! of our GREED DRIVEN, PRIVATE FOR PROFIT NATIONAL DISGRACE. A PRIVATE FOR PROFIT DISGRACE that is in fact, totally valueless to the public health. And a detriment to national security, public safety, and the public health.
Progressive democrats and others should stand firm in their demand for a robust public option for all Americans, with all of the minimum requirements progressive democrats demanded. If congress can not pass a robust public option with at least 51 votes and all robust minimum requirements, congress should immediately move to scrap healthcare reform and demand that President Obama declare a state of NATIONAL HEALTHCARE EMERGENCY! Seizing and replacing all PRIVATE FOR PROFIT health insurance plans with the immediate implementation of National Healthcare for all Americans under the provisions of HR676 (A Single-payer National Healthcare Plan For All).
Coverage can begin immediately through our current medicare system. With immediate expansion through recruitment of displaced workers from the canceled private sector insurance industry. Funding can also begin immediately by substitution of payroll deductions for private insurance plans with payroll deductions for the national healthcare plan. This is what the vast majority of the American people want. And this is what all objective experts unanimously agree would be the best, and most cost effective for the American people and our economy.
In Mexico on average people who received medical care for A-H1N1 (Swine Flu) with in 3 days survived. People who did not receive medical care until 7 days or more died. This has been the same results in the US. But 50 million Americans don’t even have any healthcare coverage. And at least 200 million of you with insurance could not get in to see your private insurance plans doctors in 2 or 3 days, even if your life depended on it. WHICH IT DOES!
Contact congress and your representatives NOW! AND SPREAD THE WORD!
God Bless You
Jacksmith – WORKING CLASS
HYPOCRACY, OUR so called LEADERS and their CRONIES!
THE BUSH ADMINSTRATION LIED ABOUT EVERYTHING? WHAT ABOUT THIS ADMINSTRATION,WHERE'S THE TRANSPARENCY? THIS ADMINSTRATION HOSTS SOME OF THE WORST CRIMINALS TO DATE: DODD, FRANK, OBAMA, REID, PELOSI, BOXER. IF THESE ARE OBAMA'S FRIENDS I'D HATE TO SEE HIS ENEMIES. OBAMA'S TIES OF ACORN,THE BOGUS REV WRIGHT, EXTREMISTS THIS IS HONESTY.NOW EXPLAIN TO ME HOW MORTGAGING AN ALREADY MORTGAGED AMERICA AND AN OBAMA'S 1.8 TRILLION DEFICIT TO DATE. SURE IT'S NOW MUCH BETTER THAN THE BUSH DAYS, LIBERALS ARE FOOLS, FEAR MONGERS, WEAK LOSERS!
Over reaching
The purpose of government is to protect your rights, not to "benefit the welfare of the people." If "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" means that the government is required to provide medical care to everyone (including people who purposely have more children and not work so they can collect more welfare) then yeah, socialized healthcare is within the premise of the government. If, on the other hand, you like to work to support your family and provide the best care you can, pursue happiness (not pursue entitlement happiness), and keep more than half your paycheck, then socialized healthcare is not for you.
That government is best which governs least.
advertisement
