Families USA has reputation for inaccuracy

Concerning a socialized medicine ad campaign as a newsworthy headline on KCRG's website on Oct. 14. Note that this is the second time the Families USA group (affiliate of such groups as SEIU, ACORN, AFL-CIO), which help fund the Occupy Wall Street movement, has pushed socialized medicine on a resistant American public.

How come these groups never complain about government costs growing? After all, at least private insurers have to compete with one another. Who does the federal government compete with?

These groups seem to despise America's laws, our traditions, our Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, which strictly forbid the federal government's interference in these affairs. No matter, these “progressive” organizations say that the Constitution is “living and breathing,” so they can morph it into any illegal direction they prefer.

Families USA is known for approaching health care with a well-defined ideological slant and for producing questionable numbers on all manner of health-care issues. One hopes that, next time, KCRG-TV9 will take the Families USA reputation for inaccuracy into account and that it will check before it unquestioningly reproduces their news releases as news.

Scott Dunkirk

Cedar Rapids