Editor:
Led by Ted Cruz, the evangelist senator from Texas, decalogues are flooding the media with lies about Obamacare.
With his slash-and-burn tactics Cruz is the very reincarnation of Joe McCarthy. He claims that the Affordable Care Act is responsible for the increase of par time jobs over full time ones.
Studies show no positive correlation between the ACA and part time jobs. Big corporations, as a matter of policy, have been enlarging their work force with part-time workers, while cutting back on full time.
Wal-Mart leads the way in the movement, followed by fast food chains, the hospitality industry and others. Cruz also claims that Obamacare will cost every American $7,500 more for health insurance, a number with no validity that he plucks out of the air.
Cruz also asserts that universal heath care in Canada, the UK, France, etc., is a failure. This is a brazen lie. The health care systems in these countries work well and are very popular.
The senator ignores the telling example of Canadians who cross our border to work in the oil and gas fields of North Dakota, who will not take up residence in the United States because they do not want to lose their Canadian health care.
The rookie from Texas also claims that Obamacare is a government takeover of our health care system, a copy of European socialized medicine. In truth the ACA is a timid hybrid, with health insurance still mainly in the hand so of the private sector.
Cruz never allows facts to penetrate his opinions. Recently he cited Reagan’s condemnation of Medicare/Medicaid when it first became law, warning that it would turn the United States into a socialist state.
Reagan did say that at the time. But Cruz deliberately omits the fact that once Reagan became president and saw how well Medicare/Medicaid was working, he fully supported it.
Fox News, the head media arm of the far right, embraces these lies and adds to them, with anecdotal access problems that turn out to be factually inaccurate.
Denton May, Cortez