They Stole Her Photo, Then Claimed She Hated Obamacare. She Doesn’t
Helene isn’t having the best week.
The Texas blogger was visiting Las Vegas for a bachelorette party this past weekend, and woke up on Saturday to find that she’d become the latest anti-Obamacare posterchild.
The thing is, Helene never signed up for the job.
In fact, she told me yesterday that she’s quite happy with the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and with the “affordable” health care it helped her find.
“Not only do I not agree with what the image is portraying,” Helene wrote me, “I actually have Affordable Healthcare!”
So, if anything, Helene is an Obamacare success story.
But that didn’t stop over 17,000 people on Facebook from sharing an image of her face, posted just days ago, with a caption complaining about Obamacare. To add insult to injury, the people who stole her image couldn’t even spell “conspiracy” right.
When in doubt, lie
Regular followers of the health care reform saga will find this story all too familiar.
The Republicans have attempted to repeal the ACA some 50 times since it was first passed. They also challenged the law all the way to the Supreme Court, where they lost. And they made the presidential election of 2012 about repealing “Obamacare” – and they lost that too.
But far from being daunted, Republicans are only more emboldened by their certainty that President Obama has circumvented democracy by passing legislation with a majority in Congress, then getting it declared constitutional by the Supreme Court, and finally reaffirming the mandate with the popular vote.
But, when the truth fails them, Republicans fall back on their trusted steed, the lie. And boy have they been lying a lot lately about Obamacare. You see, the Republicans keep trotting out Obamacare “horror stories” that just aren’t panning out. Probably the most famous GOP example of the ACA’s failings was the story they told the night of this year’s State of the Union:
More here: http://americablog.com/2014/03/another-anti-obamacare-posterchild-actually-loves-obamacare.html
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