Can we please stop forgetting the Truth around here and knock off the fear mongering?

[berni_mccoy]

There have been at least 2 posts of a Raw Story article that says Dems are going to drop the pre-existing condition ban. This simply isn't true. The Raw Story article cites the concern of a blogger over the fact that a NY Times article talks about the ban of PEC on children, but not adults.

How about, instead of posting rumor-mill stuff like this you call your Congressional Reps and say you won't vote for them again if they drop the PEC protections from the HCR Bill.

Likewise, there is another wildly rec'd post running around here that says Dems have abandoned people with PEC for 6 months. Guess what? That post totally down-plays one key fact: that the people who can't join the high-risk pool are people who are eligible for COBRA because they've been covered by a creditable plan within the last 6 months. And guess what? Instead of making them spend 18 months on COBRA, they only have to spend 6 months on it before joining the Federal high-risk pool.

These are just two examples of how the truth is being ignored around here. There are many more. Can we please knock off the doom and gloom and Dems are evil bullshit? This is *Democratic* Underground after all. Let's lay off the fear mongering a bit and point out the truth for a change.