[Vision2020] Idaho state senator compares health exchanges to Holocaust

[Art Deco]

Maybe it's time for her family to have her committed.

w.


On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 9:28 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
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> 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.”
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> State Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll, R-Cottonwood, said the federal government is
> exploiting private insurers and in the future will “pull the trigger”
> on them.
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> 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.”
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> Nuxoll sent the email out Jan. 23 to more than 120 email addresses and
> tweeted a link to it on her @SherylNuxollID account.
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> 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.”
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> 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.”
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> He added, “I don’t think this is exclusive to Sen. Nuxoll.”
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> The governor’s exchange legislation was introduced in a Senate committee
> on Tuesday.
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> 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.”
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> 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.
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> “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.”
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> Packard said a state-based exchange will result in lower costs and
> retaining jobs and businesses in Idaho.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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 . . .
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> "Moscow Cares"
> http://www.MoscowCares.com
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> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
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> "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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