I posted this late Saturday night but was asked by commenters to re-post today, since who reads stuff at midnight! Thanks to some helpful comments, I also reformatted this to remove the CAPS and make it easier to read.
I received one of those chain emails with an amazing list of distortions about the House health reform bill. So I responded to the long list of people to whom it was sent (and it's really burning up the internet apparently) with my own rebuttal to their pretty wild charges. I read every charge, read the actual language in the bill, and attempted to answer the charges in simple terms that people who don't usually think about insurance or policy could understand. We can't stop this type of craziness but we need to be able to respond adequately. Turns out that politifact.org had already done some of this work, as well as electronicmaji on Daily Kos (who is posting a little bit every day with more analysis, bless his heart), so there's a good amount of pushback to these lies.
A version of this post is cross posted at Huffington Post - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
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