All the best propaganda has a grain of truth:
Americans seem to like the idea of broadening health insurance coverage, but they may not want to be forced to buy it. With health care costs high and rising, such government mandates would make many people worse off.
The proposals now before Congress would require just about everyone to buy health insurance or to get it through their employers — which would generally result in lower wages. In other words, millions of people would be compelled to spend lots of money on something they previously did not want, at least not at prevailing prices...
Reform advocates start with anecdotes about the underprivileged who are uninsured, then turn around and propose something that would hurt at least some members of that group...
Did you catch the hook in that text? Reform advocates. Which reform advocates? Certainly not the ones who advocate breaking up the big banks with heavy regulation of banksters, government run infrastructure, energy, and environmental jobs programs for everyone who wants to work, or that advocate dismantling the endless war machine.
The country has a choice in policies, none of which are designed to really help us, all of which are designed to enrich different interest groups. Each interest group does its best to appeal to the needs and fears of the population. As a result the people as a whole simply are dazed and confused.
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