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Hannity falsely claims Obama wants Canadian-style health care reform

July 20, 2009 10:00 pm ET

From the July 20 edition of Fox News' Hannity:

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Previously:

WSJ publishes op-ed falsely equating "ObamaCare" with Canadian "single-payer" system

Fox's Baier falsely suggests Obama has cited Canada as possible health reform model

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    • Author by TheKidFromKountyMeath (July 20, 2009 10:07 pm ET)
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      I hope it turns out that when you reach a certain level of dishonesty, it melts makeup, because then Sean will never be allowed on TV again.
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      • Author by TheThief672 (July 21, 2009 9:03 am ET)
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        Hannity falsely claims


        Which is the name of his new Faux News Show.
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    • Author by BISHAMON (July 20, 2009 10:07 pm ET)
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      Canadians fear America's health care system. We have more uninsured Americans than there are Canadians, and we have 'rationing' thanks to the insurance industry's efforts to meet and exceed the expectations of Wall Street, denying coverage -- and dropping existing coverage -- in order to make their excessively huge profits and pay their excessive executive salaries.
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    • Author by jjamele2880 (July 20, 2009 10:09 pm ET)
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      Christ- if only Hannity was right.
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      • Author by NiceguyEddie (July 21, 2009 8:05 am ET)
           
        He might be closer than you think, and thank goodness that might be the case!

        Check this out:

        BEWARE The "Uh Oh" Moment in the New Health Care Bill

        Funny thing is, this was written as a CRITIQUE. And I read it and thought... Man, I HOPE it's like this!!!
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        • Author by captfoster2 (July 21, 2009 10:29 am ET)
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          NGE,

          Went and read it.... your correct... I to would hope that that ends up the case.

          With one exception. In Canada, they have a thriving private insurance industry up there. It allows someone to have the ability to get above and beyond what the public plan does not.

          Need a non-life threatening nose job or a boob lift or want your own private bedroom while recuperating... then Canadians can buy insurance that covers these things.

          I think there should still be a market allowed for private insurance, even if they have proven untrustworthy over the years. Instead of being billion dollar monsters, they can simply be million dollar ones.

          I for one would not shed a tear for their loss of revenue.
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          • Author by NiceguyEddie (July 21, 2009 11:54 am ET)
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            Ultimately you can't really stop it - all you can do it make it so that most people realize what a scam it is.

            Personally I loathe the health insurance industry. And if fimd that most people do, the problem is that about 45% of them FEAR the Gov't more than they HATE their Health Insurance provder. But not me. Screw the bastards, is what I say!

            And do you notice how no one EVER has any testimonials about their health insuramce company? Even those that defend the current system do so only by saying "it would be worse." They can never point to anything GOOD about it. LOL.
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    • Author by IRONY 101 (July 20, 2009 10:16 pm ET)
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      Does Barack Obama speak a foreign language that Sean Hannity does not understand? The last time I heard Obama talk he was speaking English...quite well, in fact. Why does Sean Hannity have such a difficult time comprehending what Barack Obama says? Maybe that's what happens when a person of marginal intelligence whose highest academic achievement is a high school diploma tries to interpret someone with considerable intellect and an advanced post graduate degree with honors. As a public service perhaps the White House should provide FOX News with a translator, one who speaks slowly and in short sentences, using words of no more than three sylables, to help people of lower intelligence, such as FOX viewers, understand exactly what their President is saying.
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      • Author by TN GAL (July 20, 2009 10:50 pm ET)
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        Since I hate Obama so much, I don't listen to anything he says. However, I did listen to his radio address on health care. The only thing I heard was "We want to give people choices." I have choices and have made the choice for which I pay. I am not interested in paying for anyone else's medical coverage. They can pay for their own, just like I always have.
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        • Author by TheKidFromKountyMeath (July 21, 2009 8:38 am ET)
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          Further proof that right-wingers either couldn't care less about poor people or are just unable to grasp the concept of anyone having less money than them. Go back to the Dickens book you slunk out of.
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          • Author by Brabantio (July 21, 2009 12:24 pm ET)
               
            Then let them die, and decrease the surplus population...
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        • Author by nerzog (July 21, 2009 10:24 am ET)
             
          I'm glad you're either rich or healthy, or both. I hope you remain so and never have to eat your Social Darwinism.
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        • Author by nerzog (July 21, 2009 10:26 am ET)
             
          Oh, and I have empathy for your feelings toward Obama. I've spent the last 8 years despising your president.
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        • Author by blueline99 (July 21, 2009 10:37 am ET)
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          be thankful that you or anyone in your family aren't sick or get injured... that insurance you have is only good as long as you don't get sick.

          25% of people who get catastrophically sick or injured have their policy canceled immediately... another 25% have it canceled within a year...

          everyone thinks they have "great" insurance until they really need it... I'm not talking minor surgery or ailments, but really need it!!!

          So pray that you or your family don't really need that medical coverage you pay for, because there's a 50% chance that it will be gone... these nice insurance companies do not want heal you, they want to profit from you
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        • Author by captfoster2 (July 21, 2009 10:47 am ET)
             
          TN GAL,

          Glad to see that there really are people in America that don't give a damn about other Americans.

          So you have been buying insurance for years... your point?

          You pay what out of pocket for your insurance... $500? $800? $1000? a month?

          You seem to not realize that a single payer plan would do two things:

          1) Allow you to save nearly all the money you pay private insurance today for coverage that is fractured at best. Your contribution for 'everyone' else being able to access health-care for free would cost you a fraction that it is costing for just you and your family to be denied coverage at the behest of a bean counter at the for-profit insurance company. Not to mention your co-pay and the left over hospital bills not covered that you now must pay.

          2) Will allow you to go see a doctor for any health related ailment, with no bill to take home and you will have no stress about the possibility of having to go bankrupt due to those medical bills. (FYI: America is the ONLY industrialized country ON EARTH that allows any of its citizens to declare bankruptcy due to medical bills.

          3) In the end, as I stated in 1) the amount you will end up paying out for everyone to be covered under a single payer plan will be a fraction of what you pay now to cover just your family, while 50 million of your fellow citizens go without.

          How American is that to think of only yourself? Because rest assured TN GAL... you get horribly sick and your insurance company denies you your coverage (don't think they wouldn't) because you failed to disclose you had seen a doctor for a wart 20 years earlier, or what not...... fill in the horrific story here
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          • Author by nerzog (July 21, 2009 12:06 pm ET)
               
            Apparently TN Gal is one of those fortunate few who is so well off that she doesn't even need her employer to help pay for her insurance. At least, I would assume so, given the absolute self-centeredness of her comment.

            Or, maybe she forgot, or is unaware that her employer helps provide her wonderful insurance plan.
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        • Author by Brabantio (July 21, 2009 12:29 pm ET)
             
          See, the problem with that is that it's economically impossible for everyone to be able to pay for health care one way or another. That's just how it works. There's always going to be some people who are poor, whose companies don't cover them, whatever. No matter how many night classes people take, someone is going to be left out in the cold. It doesn't matter if everyone's a genius with a solid work ethic or not, the situation remains the same.

          So as noted, what you're espousing is social Darwinism. Whoever happens to be at the bottom is going to lose out, whether they theoretically deserve it or not.
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      • Author by Lane (July 20, 2009 11:55 pm ET)
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        I agree. I found it hilarious when Hannity told Obama to "hit the books" after cropping a speech to make it sound like Obama didn't know what he was talking about. Was a piece about the Cold War & Reagan, I believe.

        But as Upton Sinclair said:

        "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

        Which seems to ring true for much of FOX news.
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      • Author by John Paradox (July 21, 2009 1:54 am ET)
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        Wingnuts have English as a second language, after Wingnut. That means certain words (fair, hope, justice) are automatically filtered out of their hearing.
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      • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (July 21, 2009 7:24 am ET)
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        Does Barack Obama speak a foreign language that Sean Hannity does not understand?
        Yes, one based upon logic and common sense, two totally alien concepts to Hannity.
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    • Author by kssaul (July 20, 2009 10:20 pm ET)
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      People like Hannity and the Fox viewers hear what they want to hear. Luckily, the majority of American's are waking up.
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    • Author by hurricaneyankee52983 (July 20, 2009 10:34 pm ET)
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      Tell me,why should anyone believe anything HANNITY says?We all know he has an agenda.
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      • Author by IRONY 101 (July 20, 2009 11:15 pm ET)
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        I think he won an award for lying.
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        • Author by JamminJay (July 20, 2009 11:25 pm ET)
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          You mean this right?:

          http://mediamatters.org/research/200812170007
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        • Author by ProgLib (July 21, 2009 12:09 am ET)
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          the only award these morons care about are high ratings. luckily, the media doesnt give out awards for such pointless stats, but actual journalistic integrity. hannity wouldnt know anything about that, though.
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          • Author by IRONY 101 (July 21, 2009 12:53 am ET)
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            I am surprised that when promoting Hannity's show FOX never mentions that Hannity is the most recent recipient of MMFA's coveted Misinformer of the Year. You would think he'd be proud of that...
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    • Author by adirondack_11985 (July 20, 2009 10:39 pm ET)
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      Somebody show me where there is this entitlement thing in the constitution that says we are entitled to tax the successful to pay the bills of those who have an equal chance at managing their own affairs but do so irresponsibly.

      By the way, isn't social anything the business of the states? Congress can't even manage social security and medicare so how do we think they will do any better when the flunked the tryouts?
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      • Author by blueline99 (July 21, 2009 10:42 am ET)
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        The top 1% of this country owns 1/3 of the wealth of this country and should pay 1/3 of the taxes... in the last decade they are paying closer to 27% of the tax burden

        The next 9% of this country owns 1/3 of the wealth of this country and should pay 1/3 of the taxes.. in the last decade they are paying closer to 29%...

        The Republicans keep pushing their tax obligation down saying that they pay more than their fair share, but the reality is that they don't...
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      • Author by vhw28672478 (July 21, 2009 10:50 am ET)
           
        We health care reform
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    • Author by Diplomacy (July 20, 2009 11:11 pm ET)
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      FALSE! Most Canadians DO LIKE the Canadian Health System in Canada!

      In fact, a whopping 82% of Canadians!

      As per this recent survey of Canadians by Harris-Decima Market Research.

      http://decima.com/en/

      See: "Most Canadians Say Health Care System Working, NO Appetite for Further Privitization".

      Also, see "Nine in Ten Canadians Have a Family Doctor". That's a whopping 90%.

      I am so fed up with this BASHING of other nations health care systems. By all means have a DEBATE. But ... STOP the LIES!

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      • Author by blueline99 (July 21, 2009 10:44 am ET)
           
        I agree...everything I've read and every person I've talked to loves their health care system and can't comprehend what we are doing here.

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    • Author by leighh (July 20, 2009 11:57 pm ET)
         
      I think the headline says it all.... "Hannity falsely claims" everything this dipstick says is false
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    • Author by ProgLib (July 21, 2009 12:07 am ET)
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      Michael Moore is like the WWF[E]... I mean, he's entertaining, but nobody thinks its real anymore. Nobody believes what he says.


      hmm... thats strange, because i have a similar interpretation about fox news.
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      • Author by IRONY 101 (July 21, 2009 12:50 am ET)
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        I've always thought the better wrestling analogy is that FOX is to journalism as what professional wresting is to sports.
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        • Author by ufleirx (July 21, 2009 8:05 am ET)
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          At least profeesional wrestling admits it has a story line. FOX still lies about it having an agenda. In short professional wrestling more integrity than FOX News.
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    • Author by wolf kotenberg (July 21, 2009 1:34 am ET)
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      Wonder if this pretty boy can actually give me some information about the " canadian style ' health care. Has he actually looked at this ?
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      • Author by shaggles (July 21, 2009 12:13 pm ET)
           
        Oh. He'll just dig up a couple of horror stories about people who were denied treatment. He won't bother to mention the fact that no insurance company would have paid for the treatment either.
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    • Author by digeeedad9143 (July 21, 2009 1:58 am ET)
         
      How much money do you suppose the Health Insurance and Pharmacetical industries pay Hannity, Beck and Limbaugh?
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    • Author by blk-in-alabam (July 21, 2009 2:11 am ET)
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      Hannity may be good for the democrats.Many conservatives(republicans) who listen to him don't know they are lost.Hannity is a cheerleader.When his team wins,he cheers.When they drop the ball,he cheers.When his team gets the snott kicked out of them,he cheers.When the score is revealed,he lies.You cannot win when the only information you have on your opponent is lies and your own cheers.
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    • Author by eastcoast (July 21, 2009 6:13 am ET)
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      Hannity always has that smirk on his face because he knows hes lying through his teeth,and his ignorant viewers buy his bullsht.
      Beck,oreilly,hannity,those 3 clowns on fox and friends,seriously how can fox say that they are fair and balanced? Anyone with at least a GED can see how fox is nothing more but a talking machine for rightwing propaganda. I cant understand how they can lie so blalantly and get away with it. Pathetic.
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    • Author by dmhack (July 21, 2009 7:24 am ET)
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      Crowder couldn't be more wrong if he tried when he claimed most Canadians don't like their healthcare system. It's simply not true. Canadians do recognize that the system is not perfect, but that's hardly the same as hating the system.
      When Canadians were asked to pick the Greatest Canadian, they picked a man named Tommy Douglas. Who's Tommy Douglas? Well, apart from being Keifer Sutherland's grandfather, Tommy Douglas was the Father of the Canadian healthcare system. How weird is that? They hate the system so much that they pick the man who started it as the Greatest Canadian of all time. Kind of makes you wonder.
      Crowder went to one city in one province and declared the system broken. That represents nothing.
      What frustrates me is the right's efforts to misdirect the whole healthcare debate. They offer no solutions to a healthcare system that only the rich can truly afford and can potentially bankrupt the rest. It's wonderful to live in a country that has the best medical care around, but if you can't afford that care, what good is it?
      I doubt the Canadian system would work here--we seem to be far too afraid to take such a big leap. Still, it would be nice to have a system where pre-conditions didn't prevent you from getting insurance. It would be nice to have health insurance that didn't disappear with your job or disappear when you got too sick. It would be nice to be able to pay affordable premiums for a change. And it would be nice to know that should a major illness strike, you wouldn't have to go bankrupt to pay your medical bills.
      The vast majority of Americans want healthcare that's fair and affordable. Many of the people we voted into office appear not to care at all about what we want. Maybe the next time they run for office we won't care when they ask for our vote.
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      • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (July 21, 2009 7:27 am ET)
           
        What frustrates me is the right's efforts to misdirect the whole healthcare debate.
        They have to, on every issue. When people know the truth, The GOP always loses.
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    • Author by all your eyes (July 21, 2009 8:36 am ET)
         
      Hannity is genuine in one way: he is truly seething with contempt for the president. His clenched jaw occasionally gives away his true burning anger. He tries to smile and put a happy face on his lying smears, but underneath the thin veneer is a very angry man.
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    • Author by dolovb (July 21, 2009 10:56 am ET)
         
      You know, I used to like watching you but now it seems you have gone off the deep end with accusing Obama of wanting health care as the Canadians have!

      Take a step back my friend and research your comments before you make them!

      What happened to the guy I used to like watching!!

      I think it's time you found another job which requires you NOT to lie!!
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    • Author by quietcoolone (July 21, 2009 11:34 am ET)
         
      Looked at the Market this morning and index was up by 51 points. The Dow is way up since Hannity's "Obama bear market".
      Why is it that he is not saying anything about the Obama bear market rally?

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    • Author by shaggles (July 21, 2009 12:10 pm ET)
         
      He doesn't but I wish he did.
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