In a conference call Wednesday night with bloggers and activists for the advocacy group Americans for Prosperity, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) called on protesters to “scare” members of Congress into killing the proposed health care reform bill.

If the protesters succeed in scaring lawmakers, Bachmann said that it could cripple efforts to restructure health care for a decade. “Nothing scares members of Congress more than freedom-loving Americans,” Bachmann said. [ READ MORE ]

Meanwhile, Nicholas D. Kristof of The New York Times penned the following: “Unhealthy America” — The greatest distortion about the health care debate is that reform will destroy our health care system, .. and notes:

We have the greatest health care system in the world. Sure, it has flaws, but it saves lives in ways that other countries can only dream of. Abroad, people sit on waiting lists for months, so why should we squander billions of dollars to mess with a system that is the envy of the world? As Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama puts it, President Obama’s plans amount to “the first step in destroying the best health care system the world has ever known.”

That self-aggrandizing delusion may be the single greatest myth in the health care debate. In fact, America’s health care system is worse than Slovenias, ….., wrote Kristof. [ READ MORE ]

The GOP’s Joke of A Health Plan: Budget Monitor Says G.O.P. Bill Leaves Millions Uninsured

By David M. Herszenhorn, New York Times: The Congressional Budget Office said on Wednesday that an alternative health care bill put forward by House Republicans would have little impact in extending health benefits to the roughly 30 million uninsured Americans, but would reduce average insurance premium costs for people who have coverage.

The Republican bill, which has no chance of passage, would extend insurance coverage to about 3 million people by 2019, and would leave about 52 million people uninsured, the budget office said, meaning the proportion of non-elderly Americans with coverage would remain about the same as now, at roughly 83 percent. [ READ MORE ] They call it the “COMMON SENSE HEALTHCARE BILL“: [ READ IT HERE ]

Will Healthcare Reform Be Achieved?

Dobbs promotes health-care reform protests, promises to put Pelosi’s and Hoyer’s contact information on his Web site

Hannity: “I hear there’s gonna be a lot of people — thousands of people” at protest of health care reform

Healthcare Thuggery and NUT-Baggery:

Salacious Toe-Sucking Gorilla — Extortionist Dick Morris, NewsMax.com and “The League of American Voters” are running the following Fear-Mongering AD to extort money from their brainless idiot followers — who cannot think for themselves.

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