Another day, another metastasizing lie about health-care reform that needs debunking.
We’ve already seen the euthanasia lie — in which conservatives, including Sarah Palin, have claimed that a provision in the bill that would extend Medicare coverage to end-of-life consultations is really aimed at letting Obama kill your grandmother. But that’s old news by now.The hot new conservative health-care lie is that the bill will give the government direct access to Americans’ bank accounts at any time, which, in some variations of the lie, will then be raided to finance the legislation.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=139643