(It's good to hear from someone who attended this meeting. Also interesting to note no anti-health reform "protesters". Hmmmm... - promoted by Jennifer Daler)
Salem, this morning - Little old lady: Would my health care costs go down or would I maybe lose my coverage [under current health reform proposals]?
Judd Gregg: You're [health care is] at risk. This, it should be noted, is not word-for-word. It is, however, the gist of an exchange that U.S. Senator Judd Gregg had at his health care forum this morning. The type of forum where legislators should talk openly and honestly about health insurance reform, but at which our Senator dearest decided to scare little old ladies that they might lose their health care under the Obama Administration.
Shameful.
Senator Gregg also used his last-minute, last-ditch forum to tout statistics from the Lewin Group, which he went to great lengths to describe as non-partisan and non-biased. Which it could be - if it wasn't owned by one of the largest insurance companies in the country, namely the UnitedHealth Group.
I cannot tell you how fired up it gets me to listen to blatant lies and misinformation coming from the office of a U.S. Senator. In reality, though, it gets me fired up - and ready to go. Hope, anger. Two very strong emotions which, harnessed in the right manner, can produce great changes. Harnessed in the wrong manner ...
Those teabaggers? The ones who have never gone to any of the local health care community meetings but who are so darn concerned about health care that they are harassing Congressional members intent on making sure the health care system really works for hard-working Americans?
Nowhere to be seen ... |
