Re: MD's Opinion of Obama Healthcare

[Guest guest]

The purported writing by a Dr. Dave Janda is being investigated for its

legitimacy by snopes.com

_http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/janda.asp_

(http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/janda.asp)

According to several chatboard sites, its a FAKE. READ and VERIFY people,

before you spread info farther. There is MUCH politics and fear mongering

being mass promoted by proponents of the insurance industry.

Sharon Kramer

_stymie (68.32.157.62)_ (mailto:.) from NEW JERSEY says Fake article

1) It’s a fake article that pretends to be written by Dr. Janda. All

postings I can find are from other people reposting it. And what claims to be

posted by the doctor himself are only on places like blogs that anyone can

choose a name to post under. Links trying to make the article legit just

point to where his book is on sale. Out of all the articles on his website not

one mentions the health care B.S. in the fake article. etc.

2) When you actually search the health care document the quotes don't exist

in it. i.e. fakes in the article. In case you aren’t familiar, subsequent

versions of the plan wouldn’t remove those quotes either. They add sections

that tell you what words to remove, change, or append. If the quotes were

ever there, they still would be in each version.

3) The section 1233 referenced in the article does talk about " Advanced

Care Planning " but that is the only thing the article got right about it

(actually the article spelled Advance with a “d†at the end which is wrong

and

the title really is “ADVANCE CARE PLANNING CONSULTATIONâ€. A real article

wouldn't be that sloppy.). The section really talks about informing older

people about living wills, power of attorney, roles of health care proxies,

end of life services and benefits covered under the plan etc. i.e. it

informs people about these things so they know they know they are available and

what they are for. This would allow people to correctly plan for their later

years. This would also mean less stuff would be decided by judges and

would be decided by the actual person in question. This also makes it harder

for people to be taken advantage of since they are pre-informed.

4) The Obama administration didn't actually write the plan like the article

states. Obama outlined that he wanted health care reform and a few

structured concepts. He left it to Congress to write the details (after all

they

are the ones who are supposed to write the laws). He was hoping for a

non-partisan reform proposal but that is a different story. In the end it was

not

an " Obama Care " proposal but one written by Congress. The article is just

Obama bashing by way of propaganda.

5) Dr. Dave Janda is a real author and doctor. Do you really think he would

write such a jumbled unorganized mess as is in the article? Not if he

wanted anyone to take him seriously. Obviously he didn't write this.

In a message dated 8/12/2009 5:17:06 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,

darby700@... writes:

Dave Janda