From the National Catholic Distorter: Health Care Reform: Still a Hot Potato from 3/14/11
Politico has a great piece today on the fact that the health care reform law enacted last year remains a source of great contention among the electorate.What a ridiculous opinion. The administration hasn't done a poor job promoting the law - the problem is the law itself. It's a bad law.
The Obama Administration has done a very poor job promoting the new law.
They need to put a face on this reform. They need to find a five year old who had been denied coverage for a pre-existing condition but who now has that coverage because of the law. As I have pointed out previously, when America was introduced to Ryan White, the entire debate about AIDS funding changed. The Obama Administration needs to find their Ryan White for this new law. Not five faces. Not policy explanations. Not out-year deficit projections. A Human face.
That's neither here nor there at present - the law is being challenged in court now, and by the grace of God, may the Supreme Court, when the case finally makes it to their bench, uphold Judge Vinson's ruling of it being unconstitutional.
MSW's piece isn't about any of that, though. He's basically admitting that a logical, objectively reasoned argument cannot be made in support of the law - the only resort is to appeal to the emotions of an easily duped electorate in order to gin up support for this monstrosity. Rather than defend the legislation on its merits, he'd rather stand behind the human shield of a five-year old and sob "But think of the chilllllllldrennnnn!"
Such opinion is not surprising, considering that the publication he writes for employs the same tactics when presenting opinions on Catholic teaching - appeal to emotion, ignore logic, truth and rational thinking.
If anything needs a "face", it's the Distorter. Something that represents its average reader. How about this one? It's a two-fer.
