Media Matters: Arbiters of insignifcant bullshit
Media Matters calls out Sean Hannity:
Sean Hannity claimed that President Obama has proposed “nationalized health care,” similar to programs in Great Britain and Canada. In fact, earlier that day, Obama explicitly rejected scrapping the U.S. health-care system in favor of the British or Canadian model.
Now, although the President may have said he wants universal health coverage:
OBAMA: Now, the question is, if you’re going to fix it, why not do a universal health-care system like the European countries? I actually want a universal health-care system. That is our goal. I think we should be able to provide health insurance to every American that they can afford and that provides them high quality.
So I think we can accomplish it. Now, whether we do it exactly the way European countries do or Canada does is a different question, because there are a variety of ways to get to universal health-care coverage.
. . do you think for one minute that he could accomplish this without pairing it with some massively expanded, government-administered program? And wow, look that this–Nancy Pelosi just happens to be talking about providing a government-run program. Wow, what timing!
Hannity is guilty only of being slightly unspecific.
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