Bill Moyers has been working to break open the GOP playbook on healthcare. Here's more of what the GOP is talking about to make sure health care reform dies again.
"This plan may sound good rhetorically, but at the end of the day, we are moving very swiftly towards a Washington-engineered, bureaucratic controlled, healthcare system. And we all know that when government gets in the middle of anything, the quality can quickly diminish."
"It would have federal bureaucrats determining healthcare standards rather than the doctors who are actually providing the care."
"It will take the power away from patients and doctors to choose what treatment the patient receives and give ti to the politicians in Washington."
"Why is that we have a 50% higher cure rate in cancers than anybody else in the world? And why is it if you get breast cancer in America, yo are into treatment within three weeks and in the rest of the world it's four months or six months or nine months?"
"No Washington politician or bureaucrat should stand between you and your doctor"
"Decisions about you and your healthcare should be between you and your doctor and no one else."
" Let your doctor decide."
"Other than my freedom, the most important thing in the world to me is my family's health. And I think that's true with most people. I am going to fight as hard as I can for a system that enables me to take care of my family as best I can.
I don't want somebody telling me that I can't have good healthcare for my family. I don't want a government bureaucrat telling me that I can't have some medication or procedure that's going to prolong my life or my mother's life. And I fear that the kind of rationing that's involved in the planning that's being done right now is going to prevent me, or at least my children, from having the same high quality healthcare that I've had."
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