My Rumor Aggregator Can Beat Up Yours

By David Nather | August 4, 2009 4:21 PM | | Comments (1)

So that worked out well. The White House, fighting back against various disinformation campaigns now circulating in conservative circles about the health care bill, set up an e-mail address to allow sympathetic people to report e-mails or Web site claims that seem “fishy.”

“There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care,” the White House said in a blog post this morning. “These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help.”

That’s one way to stop disruptive activity. There’s just one flaw with that strategy: conservative bloggers read the White House Web site too. So this afternoon, NetRightNation.com, a conservative blog aggregator site run by Americans for Limited Government, sent a mass e-mail urging “fellow bloggers” to — you guessed it — disrupt the e-mail address by flooding the inbox.

“Here is what we need to do. Email that address reporting Barack Obama for not telling the truth on Health Care,” the message stated. “Let’s try and flood that inbox with as many reports about Obama and his minions attempting to deceive the public as possible.”

It lacks some of the visual drama of other disruptions by conservative activists, such as the loud protests against the health care overhaul plans at recent Democratic town hall meetings. But it’s one more example of how widespread the mischief is.

And remember, in Washington, there is no sense of irony.

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  1. According to the scoring of CBO on the prevention & wellness program, all fitness centers around the world should close down immediately.

    Immune System & Levee System :

    All of the excellent health systems seem to have one thing in common, a well-organized, systematic preventative program. I think a prevention system works as a 'levee' built against flood by the government, similarly, it also needs non-profit investments from the government 'on a large scale'.

    This might offer us the clue of why all of the free states have public insurance policy in place.

    It won't be easy to draw some specific numbers on the economic effect of the 'levee' , but the flood measure lacking a stable 'levee' would be a house on sand, as the too high level of 'preventable' chronic diseases in America shows.

    At present, about 75 percent of each health dollar goes to treating chronic conditions.
    When tests reveal patients are at risk of a chronic disease, physicians have no benefit to help them make necessary changes to stay healthy. Rather, the system today is designed around treating patients once they become sick.

    If current health care system could shift a small percentage of total spending into programs that help prevent people from getting sick in the first place, it would dramatically reduce the overall cost of care.

    Thankfully, the health care reform bill currently before Congress makes several key investments in preventive care, and those pieces of the PUBLIC OPTION must be maintained.

    "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.", said Benjamin Franklin , and 'Early Detection' goes beyond monetary value as we see the recent case.

    As far as I'm concerned, the congress affected by the special interests has impeded the budget request for prevention program in Medicare & Medicaid.

    Thank You !

    Posted by: hsr0601 Author Profile Page | August 7, 2009 4:37 AM

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