{"id":560,"date":"2009-08-09T19:56:33","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T19:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/progressiverevival\/2009\/08\/lying-and-truth-telling-in-the.html"},"modified":"2009-08-09T19:56:33","modified_gmt":"2009-08-09T19:56:33","slug":"lying-and-truth-telling-in-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/progressiverevival\/2009\/08\/lying-and-truth-telling-in-the.html","title":{"rendered":"Lying and Truth-telling in the Health Care Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jim Wallis wrote a great piece in Huffingtonpost<\/a> on the latest lying by the religous and non- religious right in regards to health care reform:<\/p>\n

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I have said that one important moral principle <\/a>for the health care debate is truth-telling. For decades, the physical health and well-being of our country has been a proxy battle for partisan politics. Industry interests and partisan fighting are once again threatening the current opportunity for a public dialogue about what is best for our health-care system. What we need is an honest and fair debate with good information, not sabotage of reform with half-truths and misinformation.<\/p>\n

Yet in recent weeks, conservative radio ads have claimed that health-care reform will kill the elderly (it won’t), that it will include federal funding for abortion (it doesn’t), and that it is a socialist takeover of the health-care system (it isn’t). The organizations promoting these claims, including some Religious Right groups, are either badly misinformed, or they are deliberately distorting reality.<\/p>\n

A particularly egregious example is an ad that the Family Research Council<\/a> has run in selected states. It depicts an elderly man and his wife sitting at their kitchen table. He turns to his wife and says, “They won’t pay for my surgery. What are we going to do?” He continues, “and to think that Planned Parenthood is included in the government-run health care plan and spending tax dollars on abortion. They won’t pay for my surgery, but we’re forced to pay for abortion.”<\/p>\n

These kinds of ads should be stopped. They do not contribute to the debate that is needed to ensure that all Americans have access to quality, affordable health care. It is rather exactly the kind of misinformation campaign that could destroy needed reform. We should all denounce these ads and urge that the debate be about the real issues.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read more of Jim Wallis on health care debate here…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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