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USA Today takes the cake for allowing the publication of the following editorial in its pages this morning by Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer. Comments after.

Americans have been waiting for nearly a century for quality, affordable health care.

Health coverage for all was on the national agenda as early as 1912, thanks to Teddy Roosevelt’s Bull Moose presidential run. Months after World War II came to an end in 1945, President Harry Truman called on Congress to guarantee all Americans the “right to adequate medical care and protection from the economic fears of sickness.” From President Lyndon Johnson to President Bill Clinton, to President Obama’s winning campaign on the promise of reform, there hasn’t been a more debated domestic issue than the promise of affordable health care for all.

We believe it is healthy for such a historic effort to be subject to so much scrutiny and debate. The failure of past attempts is a reminder that health insurance reform is a defining moment in our nation’s history — it is well worth the time it takes to get it right. We are confident that we will get this right.

Already, three House committees have passed this critical legislation and over August, the two of us will work closely with those three committees to produce one strong piece of legislation that the House will approve in September.

In the meantime, as members of Congress spend time at home during August, they are talking with their constituents about reform. The dialogue between elected representatives and constituents is at the heart of our democracy and plays an integral role in assuring that the legislation we write reflects the genuine needs and concerns of the people we represent.

However, it is now evident that an ugly campaign is underway not merely to misrepresent the health insurance reform legislation, but to disrupt public meetings and prevent members of Congress and constituents from conducting a civil dialogue. These tactics have included hanging in effigy one Democratic member of Congress in Maryland and protesters holding a sign displaying a tombstone with the name of another congressman in Texas, where protesters also shouted “Just say no!” drowning out those who wanted to hold a substantive discussion.

Let the facts be heard

These disruptions are occurring because opponents are afraid not just of differing views — but of the facts themselves. Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American. Drowning out the facts is how we failed at this task for decades.

Health care is complex. It touches every American life. It drives our economy. People must be allowed to learn the facts.

The first fact is that health insurance reform will mean more patient choice. It will allow every American who likes his or her current plan to keep it. And it will free doctors and patients to make the health decisions that make the most sense, not the most profits for insurance companies.

Reform will mean stability and peace of mind for the middle class. Never again will medical bills drive Americans into bankruptcy; never again will Americans be in danger of losing coverage if they lose their jobs or if they become sick; never again will insurance companies be allowed to deny patients coverage because of pre-existing conditions.

Lower costs, better care

Reform will mean affordable coverage for all Americans. Our plan’s cost-lowering measures include a public health insurance option to bring competitive pressure to bear on rapidly consolidating private insurers, research on health outcomes to better inform the decisions of patients and doctors, and electronic medical records to help doctors save money by working together. For seniors, the plan closes the notorious Medicare Part D “doughnut hole” that denies drug coverage to those with between $2,700 and $6,100 per year in prescriptions.

Reform will also mean higher-quality care by promoting preventive care so health problems can be addressed before they become crises. This, too, will save money. We’ll be a much healthier country if all patients can receive regular checkups and tests, such as mammograms and diabetes exams, without paying a dime out-of-pocket.

This month, despite the disruptions, members of Congress will listen to their constituents back home and explain reform legislation. We are confident that our principles of affordable, quality health care will stand up to any and all critics.

Now — with Americans strongly supporting health insurance reform, with Congress reaching consensus on a plan, and with a president who ran and won on this specific promise of change — America is closer than ever to this century-deferred goal.

This fall, at long last, we must reach it.

The entire ‘editorial’ begins with a false notion that ‘Americans have been waiting for nearly a century for quality, affordable health care.”   While it is true that a large number of Americans wish that their health care was cheaper, fewer would like less coverage for less (or even more) money.  Besides, most common sense Americans know that less costs (which won’t happen) never lead to the same or better of anything.  Using the old adage, ‘you get what you pay for’, support for nationalized health care falls dramatically because of this notion.

Note they use the word ‘historic.’  This must poll well, because since President Obama took office, we have seen an onslaught of ‘historic’ events, which simply masks the leftwing’s atttempt at socializing our nation.  Yes, it is ‘historical’, but mainly because none of this crap has ever been adopted (or accepted) in this country, and for good reason.

The most obvious bias here is the following line that will surely be retold online and in the respectable media: “Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American.”  The liberals love to tell us that the conservatives in this country like to drown out debate, which is complete nonsense (which side is attempting to drown out the other after all) and is very, very pro-America.  Protest has always been part of our society through our nation’s declaration of Independence from Britain, to the Civil War (which was a gigantic form of protest), to the protests against the Vietnam War, etc., etc.  No, what is un-American is how the likes of Pelosi and Hoyer are trying to silence those that find their plans against the free will of the nation.  The same group of people that praise their paid neo-hippies that protest everything from justified wars to the freedom that comes with capitalism, denounce senior citizens that are simply scared that they will lose their insurance coverage.

Finally, another lie:  ”Now — with Americans strongly supporting health insurance reform, with Congress reaching consensus on a plan, and with a president who ran and won on this specific promise of change — America is closer than ever to this century-deferred goal.”  Yes, the polls say that the majority of Americans want some sort of health insurance reform .  However, the devil is always in the details and the type of “reform” that the Dems are demanding is not what most Americans are comfortable with. Rather, most Americans want costs contained through a combination of lower taxes, tort reform and the like, not through another government entitlement program.

This piece of garbage is best placed on the DNC website, because it is clearly political propaganda, rather than the pages of USA Today.  Its publishers should be ashamed.