For years Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal has been
the mouthpiece of right-wing whack-jobs determined to destroy the Affordable
Care Act (ACA).
Nearly every day the editorial board mounts
predictable attacks on the ACA to feed the tea party crazies and denigrate
President Obama. Murdoch’s Journal editors also regularly turn over their
opinion pages to the Republican extremists determined to put insurance companies
back in charge of your health care. These writers include some of the lawyers
who led last year’s ACA challenge at the U.S. Supreme Court. Yesterday the high
court agreed to decide whether all company health plans must provide no-cost
birth control to workers even if the company owners have religious objections,
and some of those lawyers are involved again. We can expect a slew of Journal
opinion pieces by them in their brazen attempt to lobby the justices to accept
their crazy legal theories.
The Journal regularly gives space to every
political hack from the many Koch brothers-backed front groups and think tanks
devoted to killing health reform. And we can’t forget that Murdoch’s turkeys
give a regular column to GOP hatchet-man and dark-money manipulator Karl
Rove.
We've got to call Murdoch’s turkeys on their
B.S. Write to the Wall Street Journal's columnists and
editorial board members and remind them that they run a newspaper, not the
opposition research unit of a political campaign. Tell them to stop betraying
the public trust.
We have a lot to be thankful for when it comes
to the Affordable Care Act: health care is now a right in the United States, we
can't be denied coverage due to pre-existing conditions, we no longer have
lifetime caps on our coverage, and there are now rules that limit how much
profit big insurers can suck out of consumers' pockets. Let the Rupert Murdoch’s
Wall Street Journal editors know that people who value this law are on to
them.
Thanks,
Will O'Neill
Health Care for America Now
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