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?
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Rather than parade around in his fancy taxpayer subsidised car, why doesn’t Mr. Hare tell his driver to stop and do something about the problem? Wasn’t Mr. Hare appointed to Congress? Why doesn’t selected and not elected Congressman Hare enter a bill and pass it? All Hare does is talk about problems, if you want a problem solved you have to go to Boland, or Jacobs.
on a side note, that article was written by the nice fella who wrote my article. hope things are goin well!
This Phil Hare will stop at nothing. Here he is using this guys tragedy to get himself publicity. Hare is a pig in more ways than one.
The good news is that this guy is very ineffective and will not do anything but ride around in the peoplemobile talking about it.
Phil Hare is a giant windsock.
You’re all just jealous cause Phil has a nice car.
I am sure Hareball has had a chance to fix insurance problems. If not then he was not as big a part of the Gianulis/Evans politburo as he would like to pretend to be. I know for a fact several years ago of an individual that went to the Evans clic with an Insurance coverage problem and they blew the individual off. Just another reason to spit on Evans?Johnny G/hareball.
Robbie, I thought the column was very well written, and anyone who has kids could not help but be affected by what he wrote and the way he wrote it—what he described is every parents’ nightmare.
It’s just too bad for Hare that this didn’t have anything to do with access to health insurance, since even people WITH health insurance die from medical malpractice—but still, a very moving column.
O, I’m not jealous of Hare’s Lucerne, I’m just jealous I can’t get taxpayers to pay for MY car!
Hare using a tragedy to market himself and try and hide the taxpayer leased car of $900/month.
This guy is wrong on the war, he was bragged about his hand in the death of 630,000 unborn fetus in the disgrace, and is wrong on increasing foodstamps.
This guy is a harmless windsock except for his vote that is bought and paid by the big unions. We need to get a democrat that is more conservative than this giant bought off liberal as we can not even field a chalenge.
Sid, I doubt Hare is trying to cover up his $900 car lease—why would he care? What difference does it make—he could be a child molester, rapist, alcholic, meth addict, devil-worshipper and murderer and still get elected. No matter how much we proles loathe and despise him, as long as he appeases his Big Labor paymasters he’s our congressman, whether we want him or not.
qce, i personally love the writing style of Tom Loewy. He writes a column called everyday people once a week. Its usually a piece about a normal person that ends up very boring, but his style is great in my opinion. Most people seem to hate the stories though. They do often feature people that you wouldn’t think deserve the spotlight, but I still enjoy the stories.
regarding the content of this specific story, i could care less, and you know my stance on all things hare.