24 Sep '09 18:17>2 edits
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090922/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_medicare_6
"Republican lawmakers rebuked the Obama administration Tuesday for telling health insurance companies to stop warning elderly customers they will lose benefits in health care legislation, which some equated as a gag order."
So the quesiton is this, should insurers be censored regarding their free speech? Lets even assume that they are misleading people for one minute. If the President of the United States can get up in front of the country and lie to the Congress and the rest of the country about covering illegal immigrants, then why can't insurers do the same? Despite this fact, is it lawful for the Congress to restrict their free speech, even if that free speech is misleading? If they are going to put a gag order on private insurers, perhaps they should also put a gag order on the Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf who contradicted Obama's assertion that seniors would not see their benefits reduced under the health care overhaul.
So here we have two high ranking political opponents contradicting the other. Obviously, one of them is wrong, or dare I say, lying. So why can't those in the private sector do the same, assuming they even are misleading people? Is this just a taste of more to come from Big Brother? Are people going to be bullied into silence if they are deemed opponents of the "progressive movement"?
"Republican lawmakers rebuked the Obama administration Tuesday for telling health insurance companies to stop warning elderly customers they will lose benefits in health care legislation, which some equated as a gag order."
So the quesiton is this, should insurers be censored regarding their free speech? Lets even assume that they are misleading people for one minute. If the President of the United States can get up in front of the country and lie to the Congress and the rest of the country about covering illegal immigrants, then why can't insurers do the same? Despite this fact, is it lawful for the Congress to restrict their free speech, even if that free speech is misleading? If they are going to put a gag order on private insurers, perhaps they should also put a gag order on the Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf who contradicted Obama's assertion that seniors would not see their benefits reduced under the health care overhaul.
So here we have two high ranking political opponents contradicting the other. Obviously, one of them is wrong, or dare I say, lying. So why can't those in the private sector do the same, assuming they even are misleading people? Is this just a taste of more to come from Big Brother? Are people going to be bullied into silence if they are deemed opponents of the "progressive movement"?