Government 101 - How To Ram A Bill Down The Throats Of The American Public
August 4, 2009 by JD
Filed under Health Care, News
Encouraging news out of Philadelphia.
In an attempt to win public support, the Democrats are taking their government run health care pep rally to the streets.
Now first, never forget that the only time the politicians care what we street people think is when they don’t already have enough votes in Congress Castle to get their way. Chasing public support is a last ditch effort to pressure other politicians to jump on the bandwagon.
Well, it appears that this bandwagon is turning into a hearse.
Senator Arlen Specter and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius participated in a town hall meeting in Philadelphia this past Sunday. There, in front of over 400 people, they spoke about the need for health care reform and how the ruling minds in Washington will put out the best plan for the American people.
Of course, there are like fifty proposed plans currently in some stage of review in Congress. And the Senate proposal hasn’t even been written yet. So, it looks like they’ll have plenty of options to choose from.
The key message Specter and Sebelius were delivering is that the system is broken and that any viable solution will require a government run public health care plan to fix things. Needless to say, that message did not receive a warm reception. There were boos. There was yelling. There was rotten fruit being thrown. Okay, I can’t confirm the fruit, but the crowd definitely turned ugly.
Most of the crowd comments ranged from ridiculing the government’s ability to manage a lemonade stand much less health care, to questions as to whether Senator Arlen had even read any of the proposed bills. To which the esteemed Congressman replied that he had aides to do that. That comment really endeared him to the crowd, and almost every comment he made from that point forward was met with boos.
My favorite response from a woman in the crowd:
“I look at this health care plan and I see nothing that is about health or about care. What I see is a bureaucratic nightmare, senator. Medicaid is broke, Medicare is broke, Social Security is broke and you want us to believe that a government that can’t even run a cash for clunkers program is going to run one-seventh of our U.S. economy? No sir, no,” she said.
The American people have spoken.
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Love this, wonder if the actual town hall is available on video somewhere! Would love to see.
Tracy -
Try this link. It’s a collection of YouTube clips from the meeting. Pretty hilarious to watch.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=arlen+specter+philadelphia+town+health&search_type=&aq=f
J.D.
When you leave a health care system in the hands of companies whose only interest is to turn a profit, it is no wonder that we have 47 million Americans uninsured and even more underinsured and prices becoming unaffordable for only the wealthiest Americans. Many of these uninsured people are hard working Americans. One of our problems is that we rely on companies to provide health insurance and many small companies can no longer refuse to provide this coverage. For all those people complaining at the town hall meetings, will they refuse medicare when they are 65, refuse to use govenrment built roads, not send their chilren to public school.
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