VIDEO: ‘Duplicitous’ Campaign Of Insurers To Charm The Public While Secretly Killing Reform

By GottaLaff



Lower than low. The really infuriating thing is that so few people will get wind of this until it's too late... if it isn't already:

Potter then explained how insurers would use a variety of front groups, set up by PR companies like APCO, to advance a hidden attack campaign. The “dirty” campaign involved feeding talking points to right-wing media, like Rush Limbaugh and Fox News. It also includes the creation of front groups to run negative advertisements about reform and mobilize anti-reform “grassroots” groups. Finally, insurers would coordinate with, and sometimes fund, conservative think-tanks to produce academic-appearing reports to advance their cause. Leaked memos from the insurance companies — regarding the campaign against Moore’s SiCKO movie — not only support Potter’s assertions, but specifically describe every step of this process. [...]

To better illustrate the insurers’ two-faced campaign to kill reform, we have produced this chart.

I'd take nausea meds right now, but my plan probably wouldn't cover them. Har dee har, so not funny any more.