The August Helath Care Meetings Were Great!
You cannot help but laugh at this Betty Sutton story posted on umc.org
Democratic Rep. Betty Sutton says she hosted and attended many meetings in her northern Ohio district during the August recess to talk about health care reform with constituents.
What is she talking about? Where and when did all this happen?
I distinctly remember the representative spending most of the August Recess hiding from us. Of course, I’m not a lawyer like the Congresswoman, so understanding what ‘attending many meetings in the district’ really means is probably way over my head.
“Unfortunately, I have also heard a good deal of misinformation and inaccurate interpretations of the proposals and have attempted to provide information to correct the record,” she says. “For example, rumors about death panels and government access to bank accounts have had to be repeatedly dispelled.”
What about abortion or the constitutionality of this reform plan? Are these concerns also based on inaccurate interpretations of your plan?
The opinions of her constituents differ greatly on the pending proposals, with some favoring a single-payer system and others wanting to “inject choice and competition into the system by providing consumers with the potential to choose a public option.”
“Some constituents have also indicated that they want me to vote no, regardless of what any health reform bill contains,” she says. “Many supporters have encouraged me to fight for a public option, while some opposed have issued ‘demands’ that I vote no regardless of the contents proposed.”
Some favor this, some favor that, some indicate their ideas, others DEMAND. How dare anyone in the thirteenth district DEMAND anything.
I love the way Betty paints supporters of her plan as concerned and engaged, but those others, well…
Sutton says she believes all Americans should have access to affordable quality health care.
Quality!
“We should inject competition in health care reform. The way we achieve this is by creating a public option to compete with private insurers as one choice that consumers could purchase if they so desire,” the Ohio congresswoman says.
I agree. More than 1300 private health insurance companies just isn’t quite enough competition, but if we could just add one more… Voila!
Tags: abortion, Health Care, HR3200, Socialized Medicine, Where's Betty
