Was This Trip Really Necessary?
On Monday our specially selected congressman decided to take a road trip in order to “discuss access to health care” as his press release states. Stops on the road show were Moline, Galesburg and Macomb.
Also cruising along in Hare’s taxpayer financed ‘06 Buick Lucerne was a man whose son had died supposedly because he did not have health insurance—at least that’s what the press release claims.
I found no local reporting on the Moline “press conference”, but a columnist writing for The Galesburg Register-Mail had an emotional recounting of the appearance of Hare and the father in that city.
As the father of the deceased son movingly recounts, although his son did not have health insurance, his death was caused by medical malpractice, not because the son “was afraid to go to the doctor” because he didn’t have insurance as the Hare press release claims.
My heart goes out to the father of the son who was 33 years old when he died, but why on earth would Hare use him as an example of why we need “universal” health insurance when the facts don’t fit Hare’s agenda?
Hare’s pathological lying aside, who would be convinced we need government controlled health insurance by hearing yet another emotional appeal?
If you go to the link, you’ll see the good people of Galesburg are having quite a debate about whether the government should or should not be involved, how to cut costs, make healthcare more efficient, etc. These are the kinds of questions that need to be answered dispassionately rather than by emotional manipulation, which convinces no one.
With gas going for around $4 a gallon, did Hare really need to take this trip? Did he change anyone’s opinion? What did this taxpayer financed trip accomplish?
Why doesn’t Hare quit talking and burning gas and just introduce some legislation?
