Friday, November 29, 2013

Healthy truth in advertising

Editorial from the early December 2013 North Woods Call

    Now we all know.
    The nation’s controversial “Affordable Health Care Act” is apparently not so affordable.
    Not only are individual and family insurance policies going to be much more expensive to purchase, but millions of Americans are already losing the coverage that they wanted to keep.
    This, despite assurances by proponents of the legislation that coverage would be less expensive and “if you like your current plan, you can keep it.”
    Turns out these assurances were bald-faced lies, told repeatedly to deceive the voting public.
    That’s the problem with unchecked bureaucratic socialism and power-hungry demagogues who insist on having their way despite the heavy costs to society and freedom.
     At least two things now need to happen.
     We should insist that this poorly conceived law be repealed and demand that those who perpetrated this wanton fraud on the American people be held accountable.
     Only then can we hope to find workable solutions to society’s problems—whether in health care or natural resources conservation—and foster the truth in advertising that we deserve from those in public office.
      If this kind of thing happened in the private sector, criminal charges would already have been filed.

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