Indeed!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Ron Force <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rforce2003@yahoo.com" target="_blank">rforce2003@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div><span>We can only hope she's right...</span></div><div></div><div> </div><div>Ron Force<br>Moscow Idaho USA<br></div> <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">
<div style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Tom Hansen <<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com" target="_blank">thansen@moscow.com</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> Moscow Vision 2020 <<a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" target="_blank">vision2020@moscow.com</a>> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, January 31, 2013 6:44 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020] Idaho state senator compares health exchanges to Holocaust<br> </font> </div> <br>
<div><div><div>The tweet . . .</div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:1.2236791619@web162701.mail.bf1.yahoo.com" alt="image.jpeg" height="100" width="640"><div><div class="h5"><br><br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</div>
<div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares"</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com" target="_blank">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div>
<div>"<span style="font-size:medium">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size:medium"> </span></div><span style="font-size:medium">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size:medium">
<span style="font-size:medium">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span>- John
Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div></div></div></div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On Jan 31, 2013, at 6:28 AM, Tom Hansen <<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com" target="_blank">thansen@moscow.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>Courtesy of today's (January 31, 2013) Spokesman-Review.</div><div><br></div><div>-------------------------------------</div><div> </div><div><h1 style="overflow:visible;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;clear:both;line-height:1.2;font-size:28px;font-family:Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif">
Idaho state senator compares health exchanges to Holocaust</h1><div style="overflow:visible;margin:0px 0px 21px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span>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.”</span></div><div style="overflow:visible;margin:0px 0px 21px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline">
<span>State Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll, R-Cottonwood, said the federal government is exploiting private insurers and in the future will “pull the trigger” on them.</span></div><div style="overflow:visible;margin:0px 0px 21px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline">
<span>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.”</span></div>
<div style="overflow:visible;margin:0px 0px 21px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span>Nuxoll sent the email out Jan. 23 to more than 120 email addresses and tweeted a link to it on her @SherylNuxollID account.</span></div>
<div style="overflow:visible;margin:0px 0px 21px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span>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.”</span></div>
<div style="overflow:visible;margin:0px 0px 21px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span>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.”</span></div>
<div style="overflow:visible;margin:0px 0px 21px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span>He added, “I don’t think this is exclusive to Sen. Nuxoll.”</span></div><div style="overflow:visible;margin:0px 0px 21px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline">
<span>The governor’s exchange legislation was introduced in a Senate committee on Tuesday.</span></div><div style="overflow:visible;margin:0px 0px 21px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span>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.”</span></div>
<div style="overflow:visible;margin:0px 0px 21px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span>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.</span></div>
<div style="overflow:visible;margin:0px 0px 21px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span>“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.”</span></div><div style="overflow:visible;margin:0px 0px 21px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline">
<span>Packard said a state-based exchange will result in lower costs and retaining jobs and businesses in Idaho.</span></div><div style="overflow:visible;margin:0px 0px 21px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline">
<span>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.</span></div><div style="overflow:visible;margin:0px 0px 21px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline">
<span>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.</span></div>
<div style="overflow:visible;margin:0px 0px 21px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span>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.</span></div>
</div><div>-------------------------------------<br><br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares"</div><div><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" target="_blank">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div>
<div> </div><div><div>Tom
Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size:medium">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size:medium"> </span></div><span style="font-size:medium">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size:medium">
<span style="font-size:medium">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span>- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div></div>
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