Straw Men Are Easy to Burn

I'd like to start a running post of straw man arguments and other fallacies made by the proponents of universal health care. If you catch any, please send them along. I'll add them to the list and credit you. If you think I've misidentified a fallacy, let me know that as well.

For those of you who aren't familiar with the straw man fallacy, here is a quick definition: The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position. This sort of "reasoning" is fallacious because attacking a distorted version of a position simply does not constitute an attack on the position itself. (from the Nizkor Project: http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/straw-man.html)

1. Proponents of universal healthcare are discussing how well medicare works, how it doesn't have "death panels", etc. Well, how is that relevant? We are not opposing medicare per say; we are opposing H.R. 3200. Does Medicare have the exact same language in it as H.R. 3200? Why are the Democrats not discussing the actually language of the bill before us? This argument falls under other fallacies as well. Red Herring comes to mind.
2. I'm not sure this is straw man: The many elderly people who are against the healthcare bill don't understand that Medicare is a government funded program. I've heard one anecdote of an elderly person saying, "The government better keep its hands off my medicare." I've heard it repeated twice. The argument says that the people who are against government-run health care not only have it already but really like it. If they only understood this, they would not oppose President Obama's plan. So. How many elderly people actually don't understand that their Medicare benefits are government funded? Can elderly people not understand the differences between Medicare as it stands today and the government-run health option that Obama proposes. I give them a lot more credit than that. Besides the whole argument being a fallacy, it is also a prime example of youthful arrogance.