Reform opponents spread others’ vitriol

Todd Dorman's March 23 column “Health care realities” contained common sense that is lacking in much of the discussion over health care reform. In particular, Dorman wrote “the bill's opponents have made a political calculation that heaping overheated vitriol on this legislation over and over again is the clearest path to victory in November.”

As if to prove his point, a letter printed near his column made 11 vitriolic charges against the reform bill, at best misleading and most completely untrue. Where do the writers of such letters get their “facts?” They are the result of the malicious nonsense spread by Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Fox News Channel, et al. I worry about the future of America when demagogues have national platforms to alarm and mislead so many people.

The national health care reform is the dawning of a great new day in America.

Durward Webster

Iowa City