{"id":664,"date":"2009-09-20T15:08:34","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T19:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=664"},"modified":"2009-09-20T16:09:07","modified_gmt":"2009-09-20T20:09:07","slug":"targeting-the-enemies-of-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/664\/targeting-the-enemies-of-obamacare\/","title":{"rendered":"Targeting the Enemies of ObamaCare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <em>The Washington Times<\/em>, a series of &#8220;grass-roots demonstrations&#8221; set to take place Tuesday to promote ObamaCare are being planned as &#8220;tightly scripted events [featuring] an &#8216;escalation&#8217; of efforts against &#8216;enemies&#8217; of reform.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;Health Care for America Now (HCAN), which is backed by a coalition of labor unions and liberal groups including ACORN and MoveOn.org, organized the protests to target insurance companies and drafted the plan, which describes the demonstrations as part of its &#8216;insurance enemies project.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The document, a copy of which was obtained by <em>The Washington Times<\/em>, details specific talking points, tactics, props and strategies to stage the protests.\u00a0 It lists goals that include action that &#8216;mobilizes or base by animating existing anger about private insurers.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Surely, President Obama and Speaker Pelosi will speak out against &#8220;animating existing anger.&#8221;\u00a0 Doesn&#8217;t &#8220;animating anger&#8221; lead to violence?\u00a0 Since when is &#8220;animating anger&#8221; a legitimate policy goal?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re still trying to figure out how health insurance plans could be so greedy and evil when they pay medical providers 20% more than Medicare pays the same medical providers for the same services and manage to make only a 3% profit margin.\u00a0 No one seems to want to answer that question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to The Washington Times, a series of &#8220;grass-roots demonstrations&#8221; set to take place Tuesday to promote ObamaCare are being planned as &#8220;tightly scripted events [featuring] an &#8216;escalation&#8217; of efforts against &#8216;enemies&#8217; of reform. &#8220;&#8230;Health Care for America Now (HCAN), which is backed by a coalition of labor unions and liberal groups including ACORN and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}