US/healthcare/reform/2009/disinfo

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The overwhelming majority of attacks against the 2009 US healthcare reform movement were based on disinformation rather than sound reasoning from accurate facts.

2010-02-04 [L..T] The government has your baby's DNA «Many parents don't realize their baby's DNA is being stored in a government lab... "We were appalled when we found out," says Brown, who's a registered nurse. "Why do they need to store my baby's DNA indefinitely? Something on there could affect her ability to get a job later on, or get health insurance."»
2009-09-11 [L..T] Right-Wing Health Care Group Misled Canadian Interviewees Who Appeared In Anti-Reform Ads «CPR, an anti-health care reform group led by the disgraced former CEO of Columbia/HCA Healthcare Rick Scott, [ran] a commercial attacking the Canadian health care system. ... CTV British Columbia is reporting that CPR misled several of the interviewees who appeared in their ads.»
2009-08-11 [L..T] Why Aren't Progressives Disrupting ObamaCare Town Halls? «These "town meetings" are really nothing but propaganda sessions run by members of Congress who are trying to burnish their fraudulent credentials as public servants, and trying to perpetrate a huge fraud of a health care bill that purports to be a progressive "reform" of the US health care system, but that actually further entrenches the control of that system by the insurance industry, and to a lesser extent, the hospital and drug industry.»