Monday, March 24, 2014

Urban Legend: "OBAMA CARE AT 76! NO JOKE!"

Snopes calls it false   "Letter from Judge David Kithil provides line-item criticism of health care reform legislation.

        ...Page 272. section 1145: Cancer hospital will ration care according to the patient's age. Page 317 and 321: The government will impose a prohibition on...
  ...care where hospital costs are not covered. This is only the tip of the iceberg for Obama Care. Just wait to see what happens in 2013 & 2014! Age 76...
  ...to go then looked at the computer and got very quiet and asked if I was prepared to pay for it. I said no that my insurance takes care of it. She said,...
 
Also here: http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/o/HB-3200-Obamacare.htm#.UzDQhOnjjVI

http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/2009/07/27/health-care-bill-page-425-the-truth.htm

Variations:   A later version of this piece was prefaced with the false claim that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act limits the amount of Medicare coverage provided to those over the age of 75:
PLEASE PASS THIS OUTRAGE TO EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST!!! THIS should be read by everyone, especially important to those over 75.......If you are younger, then it applies to your parents.

Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/kithil.asp#37xULHa36QFzjWzk.99
Origins:   A number of similar pieces presenting lists of line item criticisms of a pending health care reform bill (H.R. 3200) began circulating on the Internet in mid-2009, and they continue to circulate widely three years later as arguments to oppose the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), commonly known as "Obamacare."



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