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Originally posted by Niki2:
Nothing to contribute, so you'll contribute a nothing, eh? Not to mention being two Doctor's behind the times... We expect nothing else.

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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
Why would Obamacare prevent that operation?

What I get from a lot of Republicans is that their heads are so firmly shoved up their own arses they don't know reality anymore.

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Originally posted by reaverfan:
Republicans aren't afraid that Obamacare will do poorly. They're afraid it will succeed.

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Originally posted by whozit:
I have nothing to add here.

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Originally posted by Niki2:
Republican Senator Ron Johnson (Wisconsin) has repeatedly told his followers that a reconstructive heart surgery saved his baby daughter’s life, 30 years ago. Using the story to try to sway voters away from the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Johnson claimed that his daughter’s heart surgery wouldn’t have been possible, under the ACA. As it turns out, however, the doctor who performed his daughter’s surgery does not agree with Johnson’s false interpretation of the law. Not only that, but he provided the Uppity Wisconsin with a great deal of insight about the surgery, including how it was developed and where it was performed. Surprise, it’s not quite the way Senator Johnson made it sound.

In March, 2012, Johnson claimed that the ‘healthcare freedom’ he enjoyed when his daughter was born would soon be a thing of the past, thanks to Obamacare. “I would not have run for the U.S. Senate had Obamacare not been passed,” he told CNSnews.com. He went on to say that his daughter’s story “has a happy ending because we had that freedom.” Johnson even claimed that the ACA was an attack on ‘healthcare freedom’.

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“What this health care law is all about, it’s an assault on our freedom. It’s going to lower the quality of our care. It’s going to lead to rationing. The types of medical innovation that saved my daughter’s life (and) that saves millions of Americans — I won’t say it’s going to come to a grinding halt, but it’s going to be severely limited.” http://cnsnews.com/news/article/sen-johnson-health-care-freedom-saved-
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By now you have probably figured out that much of what republicans say is simply not true. In this case, however, it turns out there’s more than the usual amount of manipulation of facts.

Doctor John Foker, the physician who performed the operation on Senator Johnson’s daughter was recently interviewed by Jud Lounsbury, a reporter with Uppity Wisconsin. It turns out the doctor completely disagrees with Johnson’s statements regarding the Affordable Care Act. ( http://uppitywis.org/blogarticle/doh-doctor-ron-johnson-fighting-suppo
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That’s not all. It also turns out that Dr. Foker

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was (and still is) a professor at a public university, the University of Minnesota's medical school, got most of his training at the U of M, and performed the surgery on Johnson's daughter at the U of M's Medical Center. In other words, Foker was trained by the government, was a government doctor when he did a government-developed procedure in a government hospital.
( http://uppitywis.org/blogarticle/doh-doctor-ron-johnson-fighting-suppo
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One can only wonder if Senator Johnson was purposefully lying about his own daughter or if he simply doesn’t understand the healthcare law and the medical profession. He seems to have seriously misrepresented the feelings of the doctor whose ‘freedoms’ he claimed to be defending.

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Originally posted by Niki2:
Nothing to contribute, so you'll contribute a nothing, eh? Not to mention being two Doctor's behind the times... We expect nothing else.

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I'VE GOT NOTHING!! I'LL ALWAYS HAVE NOTHING!! AHHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

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