Selling The Hype.Today I had the pleasure of attending a Town Hall meeting in Derby, Vermont wherein my Congressional Representative, Peter Welch of Vermont, was tasked with selling the good folks of the Northeast Kingdom on HR 3200, Obama Care, however, none there were buying it.
Before I continue, I would just like to say that Peter Welch is one of the most affable people I have ever met and a natural born politician, however, as with his misguided support for Cap And Trade, he is wrong again in his support for HR 3200, Obama Care.
One of the more disturbing things that became rapidly apparent was that Representative Welch had not read the bill in it's entirety. I brought up the fact that, on pages 51 and 52, there was a clause which permitted illegal aliens to become subscribers to the Health Care plan, a fact which Representative Welch disputed. It plainly states:
"SEC. 152. PROHIBITING DISCRIMINATION IN HEALTH CARE.
(a) IN GENERAL.- Except as otherwise explicitly permitted by this Act and by subsequent regulations consistent with this Act, all health care and related services (including insurance coverage and public health activities) covered by this Act shall be provided without regard to personal characteristics extraneous to the provision of high quality health care or related services."
Both citizenship and non-citizenship, are "personal characteristics extraneous to the provision of high quality health care or related services." so "health care and related services (including insurance coverage and public health activities) covered by this Act shall be provided."
Clearly Representative Welch was unfamiliar with the bill and had, probably, not read it.
Based on this exchange, I can well imagine that none in Congress or President Obama himself have read this 1,017 page bill. This was only one example of the myriad of problems inherent in this bill. For a comprehensive problem analysis, CLICK HERE.
I went on to explicate that there is a difference between the much overused word "coverage" and the actual, timely, delivery of health care. A fact which Canada and the United Kingdom have bemoaned to the world.
In an stunning statement, Representative Welch said, several times, that HR 3200 is "A work in progress". I equated Congress and the President to used car salesmen, trying to run a high-pressure sales game trying to sell cars, sight unseen. In other words, "You buy the car now and we'll let you see it at sometime in the future, after the deal's done.
I'm sorry Mr. Welch but, unlike Washington, here in middle America we want to see the car before we buy it.
Congress and Obama, go peddle your snake oil somewhere else.
Before I continue, I would just like to say that Peter Welch is one of the most affable people I have ever met and a natural born politician, however, as with his misguided support for Cap And Trade, he is wrong again in his support for HR 3200, Obama Care.
One of the more disturbing things that became rapidly apparent was that Representative Welch had not read the bill in it's entirety. I brought up the fact that, on pages 51 and 52, there was a clause which permitted illegal aliens to become subscribers to the Health Care plan, a fact which Representative Welch disputed. It plainly states:
"SEC. 152. PROHIBITING DISCRIMINATION IN HEALTH CARE.
(a) IN GENERAL.- Except as otherwise explicitly permitted by this Act and by subsequent regulations consistent with this Act, all health care and related services (including insurance coverage and public health activities) covered by this Act shall be provided without regard to personal characteristics extraneous to the provision of high quality health care or related services."
Both citizenship and non-citizenship, are "personal characteristics extraneous to the provision of high quality health care or related services." so "health care and related services (including insurance coverage and public health activities) covered by this Act shall be provided."
Clearly Representative Welch was unfamiliar with the bill and had, probably, not read it.
Based on this exchange, I can well imagine that none in Congress or President Obama himself have read this 1,017 page bill. This was only one example of the myriad of problems inherent in this bill. For a comprehensive problem analysis, CLICK HERE.
I went on to explicate that there is a difference between the much overused word "coverage" and the actual, timely, delivery of health care. A fact which Canada and the United Kingdom have bemoaned to the world.
In an stunning statement, Representative Welch said, several times, that HR 3200 is "A work in progress". I equated Congress and the President to used car salesmen, trying to run a high-pressure sales game trying to sell cars, sight unseen. In other words, "You buy the car now and we'll let you see it at sometime in the future, after the deal's done.
I'm sorry Mr. Welch but, unlike Washington, here in middle America we want to see the car before we buy it.
Congress and Obama, go peddle your snake oil somewhere else.
4 comments:
Met you yesterday at the Parking Lot Meeting with Peter Welch. I posted a link to your blog on the Vermont group in ResistNet.com. Hope it drives some traffic to your site. My blog is henwhisperer.blogspot.com
In Liberty!
Sharon
I was at the meeting yesterday also. I was the first one to ask a question. I am not sure what to make of the meeting but I do have a gut feeling that he DID listen to us. What is your thought?
I DO believe he listened to us and, by the emerging national standard of conduct at these HR 3200 Town Hall Meetings, we were a very tame lot, even though we DID get our point across.
Peter Welch strikes me as an intelligent and friendly guy, however, the problem is not that he does not understand what we, the public, are saying, it is that he is being pressured to serve two masters.
A thoughtful person would not buy a "pig in a poke", not knowing what was in store after he spent his buck, however, his Democrat compatriots need a victory and they have glommed onto the terrible expedients of the Stimulus, Cap And Trade and the HR 3200 Health Care Plan. They also expect all Congressional Democrats to be good soldiers and walk in lock step with one another.
So, therein lies the quandary. Is it best for a politician to suffer an immediate political death at the hands of his party, or a future political death at the ballot box?
C'mon, do you really think those sterling characters in the Democrat Party, such as Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid would punish a fellow Democrat for doing what is right???
OOOOPS, I forgot about Joe Lieberman.
My bad!!!
Forget I said anything.
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