Attendees at this year's Values Voter Summit, the annual DC conference sponsored by the evangelical Family Research Council, have been among the most fervent opponents of President Obama's health care reform law.Some of the groups currently suing the Department of Health and Human Services over the law's requirement that health insurers cover contraception are on hand as exhibitors and panel discussion members. But even here, many attendees I interviewed Friday had to admit that now that the law had survived the Supreme Court and was starting to take effect, there were parts of Obamacare they not only liked, but which had already helped family members or people they knew.
there is a glimmer of rational common sense and that just piles on more discredit to the right wing 4 year attempt to demonize and scare the people most likely to vote for them.
does this realization also bring an awareness that they have been lied to and denied the benefits for all these years by those who claim to be their friends?
smiling faces, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgA2Sn3b6OM
Wes Cantrell, visiting from Atlanta, is no fan of Obamacare. He thinks it should mostly be repealed. Except for the part that's allowing his his grandson to stay on his parents' insurance plan while he's in college. "That's good," he concedes.
Cantrell also admits that the ban on denying coverage to people with preexisting conditions ought to be spared. I didn't get a chance to explain that keeping the bit about preexisting conditions would be impossible without the individual mandate (the law's requirement that people buy health insurance or pay a fine), which will force lots of young healthy people into the system to subsidize the sicker people.
this can't be good for the right wing "nay sayer's", that big block of faithful losing it's belief in their lies, poetic or what?
