{"id":246,"date":"2012-05-29T12:21:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T16:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=246"},"modified":"2012-05-29T12:21:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T16:21:00","slug":"the-never-ending-health-reform-bs-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=246","title":{"rendered":"The Never Ending Health Reform BS Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

Just at the beginning of the month, I posted at the Doctors for America Blog<\/a>about a couple of ridiculous email campaigns that will not die,<\/a> in spite of  <\/span>how ridiculous they both were and are.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
A friend sent me another one this morning, which is actually a YouTube video (link below). The video is based on previously debunked BS email that was going around in 2009, as noted by Snopes.<\/a> At the time, Politifact covered it, and you can read the debunking here.<\/a><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Sent: Saturday, May 5, 2012 4:57 AM<\/div>\n
Subject: THIS WILL KNOCK YOUR SOCKS OFF!! Please WATCH!!!<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
More details on your healthcare bill.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Please watch the entire video…. Then forward it to everyone you know. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch_popup?v=HcBaSP31Be8&vg=medium (10:29)!<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
What is most astounding to me is that you can have a steaming pile of BS, like the original letter, and then take the time and effort to turn it into a video without, apparently, using The Google to see if any of it is true! Who does this stuff?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just at the beginning of the month, I posted at the Doctors for America Blogabout a couple of ridiculous email campaigns that will not die, in spite of  how ridiculous … Continue reading “The Never Ending Health Reform BS Machine”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39,21,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defending-ppaca","category-ppaca","category-right-wing-noise-machine"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}