{"id":2031,"date":"2009-08-11T10:38:23","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T14:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=2031"},"modified":"2009-08-11T10:49:05","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T14:49:05","slug":"palin%e2%80%99s-death-panel%e2%80%99-comment-on-health-care-is-challenged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2009\/08\/11\/palin%e2%80%99s-death-panel%e2%80%99-comment-on-health-care-is-challenged\/","title":{"rendered":"Palin\u2019s ‘death panel\u2019 comment on health care is challenged"},"content":{"rendered":"

Follow this link<\/strong><\/a> to the Q & A article from the AP published in the Worcester Telegram and Gazette.<\/p>\n

In my opinion, this piece is an attempt to calmly look at a complaint about the health care reform bill and see if the facts support the claim.\u00a0 (Spoiler alert, the claim does not seem to stand up to an analysis.)<\/p>\n

I have been reading in the book ‘How We Decide’, that the default behavior of the human brain is to decide an issue on emotion and then with the rational brain to invent reasons for that decision. It takes real effort to take in contrary information and use it to test your emotional decision.<\/p>\n

I hope that on my more lucid days, I am willing to examine contrary evidence and make that test.<\/p>\n

In my previous post, America\u2019s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009<\/strong><\/a>, I alluded to an online conversation where someone had made a claim against the health care act that I thought was unlikely to be true.\u00a0 Rather than just reject the claim, I asked for and received a pointer to what the complainant had read that made him think his complaint was valid.\u00a0 I then read the passage myself to see if he had a valid point. In the end, I thought he had misinterpreted what the section of the bill was trying to accomplish.\u00a0 I give myself a pat on the back, though, for being willing to look for evidence that might change my mind.\u00a0 I know I should do more of that.<\/p>\n

My rational reason for my emotional decision to vote for Obama was the feeling that he was the type of person who was willing to look at information that contradicted his position and try to consider it fairly.\u00a0 I used this rationalization to choose him over Hilary Clinton.\u00a0 Even though he and Hilary had almost identical views on many issues, I felt his process of deciding was far superior to what I perceived was her process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Follow this link to the Q & A article from the AP published in the Worcester Telegram and Gazette. In my opinion, this piece is an attempt to calmly look at a complaint about the health care reform bill and see if the facts support the claim.\u00a0 (Spoiler alert, the claim does not seem to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2033,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions\/2033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}