Early Peak: Religious Progressives' New Ad for Healthcare Reform

Some people get their information from Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and their ilk. Others of us read broadly on the left and on the right, prefering not to trust well-paid rabble rousers whose credentials for advising others are suspect.

The truth of the matter is that we're victims of blitz from the Right. We pay more for little. We consider our needs before the common good. We let insurers off the hook for overcharging us for their overhead costs and deride the one prospect we have for reducing those SIGNIFICANTLY--what Rush Limbaugh chooses to call "Obamacare" in hopes of sinking a plan that will save us all lots of money. Today Rush said, in trying to convince folks to reject the plan under consideration, "how do you compete with an entity that never has to show a profit"--the "Obamacare" public option alternative. Can you believe he's saying eliminate competition that will lower costs--the very thing those on the Right have been against all these years? Free market competition is their idol! But it's not fair in certain instances, thus we poor suckers should accept higher costs instead.

Rush Limbaugh needs to get real. He needs to clean up his act and consider just plain folks instead of his agenda. Let's make him sweat a little, something the representatives of some religions are working at without, probably, realizing it!

Ron W. Smith of UT 7:58PM August 11, 2009