Obama's Health Care Plan.

[Sovereign]

Unil_mi_tokx, "Freeper" isn't just one person, FYI. It's a whole collection of internet-libertarians who think they're the Next Coming of the Founding Fathers. Their stuff is mostly contained to their website, FreeRepublic, but they've been known to strike out into other areas.

Example: "Freeping" a poll means a flood of people from FR mass-vote in a poll to make it appear comically tilted in one direction. Such mass-voting is one reason why internet polls hardly meet statistical muster most times (a full-fledged intro to stats course would explain all there is to know about statistical validity).

Freeper ideology is something I don't care to get into, but I will warn you that if you do bring these things to some kind of Tea Party meeting, be aware that many will have convinced themselves of the truth of lists like this. Not because someone actually went and checked, but because the lists arouse anger, fear and even hatred. These emotions tend to blunt any tendency to check into the correctness of such a list, as if sheer anger justifies the "facts" on the piece of paper. "This is so outrageous it must be true" is an outgrowth of "The people in 'the other party' do so many horrible things that everything I can find negative about them must be true since they're out to 'get me' and 'destroy America.'"

I'm convinced this whole list was completely made up (save four parts which are partially true) just to get people angry.

Of course, such cognitive dissonance is hardly unique to the Right, the Left does it too. "When we do X, it's good and The People Want It, but when They do it, The People Are Screaming Stop And X Is Satan."

Also, another commonly-repeated one (that my father fell for) is "Page 122 has an exemption that says the President and his family aren't subject to any of this law." The actual content on page 122 deals with the Small Business Tax Credits established under the law.

Unil_mi_tokx, I'm glad you took the time to actually check into this before letting emotions run away with your thoughts on the bill. There are so many people who, as I said before, take anything Bad About The Other Side as some kind of gospel. As if we need more negativity and distortion in US politics...