As They Say On Twitter: SEIU FAIL

Rory Cooper / July 29, 2009

As the old saying in Washington goes: if you can’t attack the message, attack the messenger. Nobody knows this strategy better than the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), a big labor union known for bullying anyone it disagrees with into submission. And that is why they are turning their “activists” against the Lewin Group, a nonpartisan, independent health care research firm.

In the past couple weeks, thousands of conservatives have taken to Twitter to say #handsoff and push for health care reform that leaves medical decisions in their hands and not the government’s. Now SEIU leaders are urging their members to tweet “Lewin Group FAIL” to Members of Congress on Twitter, FAIL being the ultimate dig on the social networking site. And by doing this they are showing that without a coherent health care message, they have shamefully resorted to attacking those who crunch economical models for a living.

In fact, the Lewin Group is an independent and well-respected national health care and human services policy research and consulting firm with expertise in modeling, statistics, and actuarial analysis and more than 35 years of experience. They regularly analyze proposals from Democrats and Republicans, non-profit foundations, associations and for-profit corporations, across the ideological spectrum. While their estimates may differ from the Congressional Budget Office, they are not alone in projecting that millions of Americans will lose their private coverage if there is a government-run health plan. (more…)