Share Your Favorite Crazy Health Care Myths

We all have one: a dotty but well-meaning grandma, the Lyndon LaRuche fanatic at your gym who spouts nonsense, but also happens to have killer abs, the paranoid, anti-government boss who is otherwise a pretty nice guy. Since a new survey shows that fifty percent of Americans believe misinformation about healthcare, there's a good chance you've run into someone  spouting off crazy nonsense about death panels or drawing little Hitler moustaches on posters of Obama.

Of course, most of the myths people believe are more like misinformation: facts that were twisted or misread or reinterpreted. But some, of course, are just plain crazy. Like, hut-in-the-woods, handwritten-manifesto nuts. Aaron Carroll, who ran the aforementioned study about the pervasivness of these health care myths, shared one he heard as a guest on a call-in radio show.

That's crazy, right? Crazy in thinking that the government would mandate abortions, crazy in that an American citizen would think, "Yes, that sounds factual," crazy that she then decided to spread this information over AM talk radio. (Ok, that part is less crazy). There are two options when faced with a barrage of outlandish accusations like these: you can cry at how divisive and delusional public discourse over health reform has become... or you can collect a bunch of incredibly unbelievable health reform myths and laugh at them.

 We're going with option B. Along with the ladies of The Gaggle, I'll be collecting the best of the worst. For instance,