Update 7/29/09: The Acton Institute has produced a short video worth seeing: "The Problems with Socialized Government Healthcare." (HT: Hugh Hewitt)
- Prager demonstrates his usual clear-headed insightfulness. Click here.
Update: The Family Research Council has begun airing a TV commercial. View it here. FRC issued the following press release:
Hard Hitting Ad Will Run In Five Key States
Washington, D.C. - Tonight, during a live webcast joined by
more than 49,000 viewers, Family Research Council Action
President Tony Perkins unveiled a new TV ad which will
initially run in five key states including Pennsylvania,
Arkansas, Alaska, Louisiana, and Nebraska. The hard hitting
ad lays out two key threats should President Obama's plan
become reality - rationing and taxpayer funded abortions.
Patients, particularly the elderly, will face denial of
vital treatments while at the same time be forced to pay for
abortions.
The ad urges viewers to tell Congress to oppose the
government takeover of health care. The ad also urges
opposition to a health care plan that will deny care to 'our
greatest generation' and deny life to 'our future
generation.'
FRC Action President Tony Perkins had this to say:
"In a world of health care rationing, the elderly, the
handicapped and the frail are the most likely to lose their
lives because care was delayed or denied. Under the
government-run plans in England and Canada, the countries'
sick and elderly aren't getting the care they need. As a
result, their system isn't improving lives but prematurely
taking them. Here in the United States, President Obama's
rationing would mean that you and I could be denied basic
care while our tax dollars are used to underwrite a mother
choosing to end the life of her unborn child.
"On the other key life-and-death decisions there is an
active commitment on the part of Senate Democratic
Leadership to allow the rationing of health care. This is
what the White House and Congress mean when they say they
will cut costs. It means cutting off your access to health
care services by creating the legal authority to do so,
while stopping any provision becoming law that would prevent
rationing.
"FRC Action will continue to work to mobilize a coalition in
opposition to the health care plan in its current form which
will force taxpayers to fund abortions, violate the
conscience rights of medical workers, and impose a massive
tax and debt burden on American families."