[Vision2020] Idaho state senator compares health exchanges toHolocaust

Thu Jan 31 13:56:13 PST 2013

She isn’t coming up with all this on her own.  She’s the not-so-bright mouthpiece for a right wing group spreading this malarkey.   Next she’ll be sounding off about insurance exchanges lead to abortion “on demand” lead to death panels lead to death squads for the elderly.  Being elderly, I’ll take my chances. 
She wowed the School Boards in their meeting with the declaration that the repeal of the personal property tax wouldn’t hurt them because in six months the state would have control of all the federal lands and the income to be derived from them.  I think the Exec Director asked her, “such as?”   

And to think, she got re-elected and is now on JAFAC.  

Sue H

From: Joe Campbell 
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 10:15 AM
To: Ron Force 
Cc: Moscow Vision2020 
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Idaho state senator compares health exchanges toHolocaust

Indeed!

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Ron Force <rforce2003 at yahoo.com> wrote:

  We can only hope she's right...

  Ron Force
  Moscow Idaho USA

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  From: Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com>
  To: Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com> 
  Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 6:44 AM
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Idaho state senator compares health exchanges to Holocaust

  The tweet . . .

  Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .

  "Moscow Cares"
  http://www.MoscowCares.com

  Tom Hansen
  Moscow, Idaho

  "There's room at the top they are telling you still 
  But first you must learn how to smile as you kill 
  If you want to be like the folks on the hill."

  - John Lennon

  On Jan 31, 2013, at 6:28 AM, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:

    Courtesy of today's (January 31, 2013) Spokesman-Review.

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    Idaho state senator compares health exchanges to Holocaust
    BOISE – As the debate over Idaho Gov. Butch Otter’s proposed state health insurance exchange heats up, a North Idaho senator sent out a mass email and posted a message on Twitter comparing the role of insurance companies to “the Jews boarding the trains to concentration camps.”
    State Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll, R-Cottonwood, said the federal government is exploiting private insurers and in the future will “pull the trigger” on them.
    Nuxoll defends her analogy. “I just want people to hear the truth and to be aware that what is being presented before us is a socialistic program,” she said Wednesday. “There is no disrespect for any group or people with the analogy.”
    Nuxoll sent the email out Jan. 23 to more than 120 email addresses and tweeted a link to it on her @SherylNuxollID account.
    That message said, “The insurance companies are creating their own tombs. Much like the Jews boarding the trains to concentration camps, private insurers are used by the feds to put the system in place because the federal government has no way to set up the exchange. Several years from now, the federal government will want nothing to do with private insurance companies. The feds will have a national system of health insurance and they will pull the trigger on the insurance companies.”
    Fellow Sen. Brent Hill, R-Rexburg, said he doesn’t fault her. “This is a very emotional issue for a lot of people,” said Hill, the Senate president pro-tem. “There’s a lot of ‘stuff’ going around, a lot of information, a lot of viewpoints being expressed. As we get closer to making that decision, the rhetoric’s going to get more dramatic.”
    He added, “I don’t think this is exclusive to Sen. Nuxoll.”
    The governor’s exchange legislation was introduced in a Senate committee on Tuesday.
    Nuxoll said she made the analogy because “I felt badly for the Jews – it wasn’t just Jews, but Jews, and Christians, and Catholics, and priests. My thing was they didn’t know what was going on. The insurance companies are not realizing what’s going to end up is their demise.”
    Idaho’s health insurance industry has strongly supported Otter’s move to have a state-based health insurance exchange rather than defer to a federally run exchange.
    “I am shocked by that message,” said Marnie Packard, manager of Idaho government relations for PacificSource Health Plans, one of five major Idaho health insurers that are participating in a coalition pushing for a state-based exchange. “I think that some of the terms that she used can be very offensive to a lot of people.”
    Packard said a state-based exchange will result in lower costs and retaining jobs and businesses in Idaho.
    Opponents have been calling on Otter to refuse to cooperate with the national health care reform law in any way, including by setting up a state-run exchange.
    Otter convened a working group that studied the issue for months, before overwhelmingly recommending a state-based exchange. The governor’s newly introduced bill calls for the exchange to be a quasi-governmental entity, not a state agency; it would have to be self-supporting and couldn’t receive any state tax funds.
    Under the national health care reform law, exchanges in each state – whether state- or federally run – will serve as an online portal for citizens to shop for health insurance plans and access government subsidies, if they qualify.
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    Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .

    "Moscow Cares"
    http://www.MoscowCares.com

    Tom Hansen
    Moscow, Idaho

    "There's room at the top they are telling you still 
    But first you must learn how to smile as you kill 
    If you want to be like the folks on the hill."

    - John Lennon

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