My Letter To The White House
A friend sent me an article from RedState.com yesterday entitled “Call For Informants: If You Oppose Obamacare, Even in ‘Casual Conversation,’ the White House Wants to Know About It.” This article quotes the White House’s website which says:
“There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.”
So, I decided to send them the following email:
To whom it may concern,
I recently saw a nasty rumor about the health care bill on the internet. According to this terrible misinformation, the health care bill will add $1 trillion to the National debt between 2010 and 2019 and will still leave 16-17 million people without health insurance!
This awful propaganda can be found here.
Yours in Liberty,
Phred Barnet
404-202-1360
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Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito
For the record, the link was a link to the CBO’s analysis of the health care bill which contains the following text “According to our preliminary assessment, enacting the proposal would result in a net increase in federal budget deficits of about $1.0 trillion over the 2010-2019 period. When fully implemented, about 39 million individuals would obtain coverage through the new insurance exchanges. At the same time, the number of people who had coverage through an employer would decline by about 15 million (or roughly 10 percent), and coverage from other sources would fall by about 8 million, so the net decrease in the number of people uninsured would be about 16 million or 17 million.”
Yeah, Im a smart ass, but this is a very weird thing for the White House to be doing. Its definitely improper, and may also be illegal.
I recommend sending the White House your own smart ass email.
Americanly Yours,
Phred Barnet
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