Why did Sebelius announce only that reeducation is needed? Why didn’t she begin the reeducation? She could have given us fallacy #1 followed by the truth, and so on.
My opinion is that will never happen because further discussion of the bill will only increase opposition to it.
They haven’t completed the camps..er..schools yet.
“Why didn’t she begin the reeducation?”
That’s what apparently she doesn’t get. Public support for health reform steadily declined the more people knew about the plan.
Does it have some goodies for selected interest groups? Sure. But for every person helped, there are multiple people who will be harmed by being forced to get a different health plan, pay higher premiums, pay higher medical bills due to taxes on pharma and medical devices. Indeed, even among the elderly, the number of people who will lose their Medicare Advantage plan or benefits will exceed the number who benefit from $250 checks for drug expenses.
Thus, any effort to “re-educate” the currently on-the-fence members of the public is going to inevitably flip more of them into opposing the bill than supporting the bill. And those who already are opposed are likely to be incensed to see even more taxpayer dollars wasted in trying to bamboozle the public.