I actually had a back and forth with some guy on a gay site that kept to the line that government entities, like the VA, Medicare and Medicaid, never do any research so without the profit-motive driven private health care industry, research into new drugs would disappear.

'Cause you know, the government doesn't do research, but Aetna does...

I am glad that Oliver Willis is being proactive and is playing a role by debunking the crazy myths and lies from the wingnuts.

@Nanotyrannus- On the national morning news, AARP reported that it had lost 60,000 members from this Health Care Reform craziness, but the upside is they have gained 1.7 million new members. But they are still upset over the 60,000. So they are worried about the health care proposal congress will enact. WTF?

This, right here, is what drives me crazy. Not that I'm not happy about what OW is doing, but the President set up a website to do this exact same thing. The White House twitter has been working on debunking these myths since the August recess began. Why isn't the left doing a better of promoting that, instead of lamenting how the WH is doing nothing? The man wrote an op-ed in the NYTimes, for heaven's sake, not that anyone remembers, even though it happened five days ago.