Rep. Broun walks away from man asking for plan to lower health care costs: ‘If you have a suggestion, send it.’
By on Sep 9th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Rep. Broun walks away from man asking for plan to lower health care costs: ‘If you have a suggestion, send it.’
Yesterday, Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) held a town hall in Watkinsville, GA, where he fielded questions about health care legislation before Congress. At the conclusion of the town hall, Ryan Lewis, an Athens, GA, resident, approached the congressman and politely explained to him about how his health insurance company refuses to pay for his treatment. In response, Broun told Lewis, “We need to make insurance affordable.” Lewis then asked, “How do we do that?” Rather than offering a GOP solution to skyrocketing health care costs, Broun simply told him, “If you have a suggestion, send it to me” and quickly walked away. Watch it:
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Why waste your time sending anything to the GOP?
September 9th, 2009 at 5:32 pmShorter answer: They don’t pay me to answer that question
September 9th, 2009 at 5:34 pmJust give all the democratic members of congress baseball bats so they can “send” a message next time their in session.
September 9th, 2009 at 5:35 pmTypical repugniscum – family values, compassionate conservatism = bull-hockey.
When will America wake up – Republicans do NOT work for them. Republicans do not have their constituents’ interests at heart. Republicans want to make a lot of personal fortune, gain a lot of power, and use their authority on everyone else.
September 9th, 2009 at 5:35 pmRepublicans are a self-centered, narrow-minded, cold and callous lot of disagreeable and unlikeable people.
Shaking my head>>> just how dumb can one congress person be.
i would have to guess that this guy was one of his from his district.
and what kinda answer we have to lower insurance cost,,,, well it sounds like cost was not the problem, it was the company refusing to pay for a teatment.
September 9th, 2009 at 5:36 pmRep. Broun walks away from man asking for plan to lower health care costs: ‘If you have a suggestion, send it.’
The Party of No – ideas.
September 9th, 2009 at 5:38 pmPerhaps just as telling as what President Obama says tonight is what his Republican opponent will not say.
Here are the 10 Missing Republican Talking Points on Health Care:
1. 50 Million Uninsured in America
2. Another 25 Million Underinsured
3. Employer-Based Coverage Plummets Below 60%
4. Employer Health Costs to Jump by 9% in 2010
5. One in Five Americans Forced to Postpone Care
6. 62% of U.S. Bankruptcies Involve Medical Bills
7. Current Health Care Costs Already Fueling Job Losses
8. 94% of Health Insurance Markets in U.S Nearing Monopolization
9. Dramatic Decline in Emergency Room Capacity
10. Red States Offer Worst Health Care
For the details and data on each, see:
September 9th, 2009 at 5:40 pm“10 Missing Republican Talking Points on Health Care.”
This about sums up the GOP’s approach to health care reform. They truly are the “party of no.”
http://www.political-buzz.com/
September 9th, 2009 at 5:42 pmI’m not surprised, like all of the other Repuglicans, this guy is as phony as the r est of them. Why couldn’t he give the guy a straight answer because they don’t have one. Why don’t they have one because they refuse to face facts and see how their own constituents are suffering. Their pat answer is “find a job” yeah, right, they are lucky to have one. I don’t. The Repuglaicans don’t care a rats ass about this country, the people, or any thing other then their own party (both types).
September 9th, 2009 at 5:42 pmRep Broun isn’t seriously considering the suggestions in the House bills so, why would he seriously consider the suggestions of his constituents?
September 9th, 2009 at 5:44 pmLet’s look at the questioner:
Well Dressed. Articulate. Soft-spoken. Polite.
His story includes having good insurance and loosing it. Lack of available insurance due to pre-existing condition.
Answer from repub: Let them eat cake (there oughta be affordable health insurance. OK so what are you doing to make it so ?)
September 9th, 2009 at 5:44 pmIf this guy was playing basketball, that would be called an airball.
September 9th, 2009 at 5:45 pmNow THAT”S leadership.
September 9th, 2009 at 5:46 pmRep. Broun’s simple answer, “Look fellow, I don’t give a sh*t. You are on you’re own. Oh, P.S. Vote Republican.”
September 9th, 2009 at 5:47 pm***
the republican plan?
business as usual.
:|
September 9th, 2009 at 5:47 pmThe Republican plan is to stop any plan while saying they’re for a plan.
September 9th, 2009 at 5:48 pmIt’s high time to put a stake into the dead heart of the GOP vampire, which is literally sucking the blood out of the ordinary citizen.
September 9th, 2009 at 5:49 pmhis health insurance company refuses to pay for his treatment
The very reason reform is needed and why most people want a public option. Yet it’s treated like a footnote, ‘oh, by the way…’ As a bonus, single payer or public option would drive down cost.
It’s a moral issue, and ‘conservatives’ are showing their true colors. No one should be denied coverage, and this shows that even if you have insurance and can afford it, they can deny your claim. What good is it then?
September 9th, 2009 at 5:52 pmI’d like to see a clip show of all the republicans who blew off people at town halls who had health insurance horror stories. Mike Steele at Howard U, the Kansas congresswoman telling the single mother to “grow up” and buy health insurance, Rep. Broun. Maybe Jon Stewart will do it when he comes back next week.
September 9th, 2009 at 5:52 pmRep. Broun walks away from man asking for plan to lower health care costs: ‘If you have a suggestion, send it.’
So we can steal it, and claim it as our own. It’s what republican pols do.
September 9th, 2009 at 5:57 pmgNOp Ideas
gNOp morals
gNOp plans
gNOp Hope
gNOp Nothing
Except chicken little fear to scare their constituents into thinking they have the power to save them from the fear they incited.
September 9th, 2009 at 5:58 pmAnd the “trigger” idea is pure bullsh#t. Who is going to regulate insurance companies and make sure they’re following the rules. And how much extra would that cost to supervise the insurance companies. The whole idea is absurd.
September 9th, 2009 at 6:00 pmThe GOP is the YOYO party. You’re On Your Own.
September 9th, 2009 at 6:01 pmXisithrus says:
gNOp Ideas
gNOp morals
gNOp plans
gNOp Hope
gNOp Nothing
Except chicken little fear to scare their constituents into thinking they have the power to save them from the fear they incited.
think chicken is what they like as in chickenhawks, chickensh!ts
September 9th, 2009 at 6:01 pmThe insurance cartel needs to broken up. Its a hedge fund posing as health insurance, they are gambling with your money, some fool will say “but they are investing your money to lower costs” Yeh, right, and martians come from the hollow earth.
September 9th, 2009 at 6:03 pmTranslation: I’m happy with the status quo but if you submit a proposal I’ll “keep it on file.”
Message received. Again. Time to go it alone, Dems.
September 9th, 2009 at 6:06 pmrepublicans give new meaning to the term deathers. If the existing health plans these gopers are for don’t kill you because of lack of access, they surely will eventually due to financial ruin.
September 9th, 2009 at 6:12 pm‘If you have a suggestion, send it.’”
Code for: Get out of my face you worthless idiot as my contributors are my only concern.
September 9th, 2009 at 6:20 pmIn other words, I am such a caring conservative that when you are right in my face, I can tell you to send something to my office so they can have a laugh too while I collect my lobbyist checks.
September 9th, 2009 at 6:23 pmWhat I am not understanding is if Bush was able to sell an illegal war on lies, why isn’t Obama out there selling US the public option on real facts?
September 9th, 2009 at 6:26 pmhad enough
Bush had the media blowing the bugle, and an army of republicans who marched in lockstep.
Obama has neither: the media is all too quick to find criticism of him and exploit the sensationalistic performers, and the Democrats cannot stand together because some of their leaders are in the same lobbyists’ pockets as the repugniscum.
September 9th, 2009 at 6:29 pmBroun says do my job for me and let me take the credit
September 9th, 2009 at 6:31 pmIn fact, had enough, President Obama has been selling the public option with facts but the “librul media” neglects to cover it. That’s why he’s speaking tonight.
On a related note, has ANYONE in the “librul media” even mentioned that he gave a speech to children that was not only inspirational but probably the single least “political” speech by a POTUS?
September 9th, 2009 at 6:31 pmHey, Rethugs, it must suck to be you, all that self-hatred and all.
September 9th, 2009 at 6:41 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
kwsventures says:
You shouldnt even use the word FACT moron. You are too stupid to even know what a fact IS. You wouldnt know a fact if it jumped up and bit your nutsack. Supply and demand is not relevant to healthcare. When you need it then its survival. You have to pay WHATEVER it is you cant just say I wont buy it since it cost too much, instead I will just DIE. GOD you are stupid. Every post you make is just a restatement of your brainwashing and programming.
You Ebenezer Scrooge loving cons are the kings of demanding a free lunch. You WANT a civilization and snivel like the punks you are about the taxes that PAY for it. You are a selfish worthless anti-American weasel who couldnt care less about America OR Americans. It means NOTHING to you that 18,000 Americans per year DIE from lack of access to healthcare. The bankrupcies that come from healthcare. All YOU care about is rich peoples money and coporate profits. You are a sick twisted selfish soulless creature.
Once we take the profit motive out of healthcare there is a whole BUNCH of savings there. We can stop pushing everything to the higher profit margin catastrophic care that our system is geared toward. We can take all that middleman parasiticm out, the huge salaries of parasitice HMOs. We can directly subsidize the creation of drugs, which we already do, but THEN we can pass the savings of cheap taxpayer subsidized drugs on to consumers instead of making taxpayers pay for their creation then letting drug companies charge whatever they can get for them. We can give medical school scholarships to aspiring doctors to become thorasic surgeons then have them work in the system for a lesser fee to recoup the investment. Once it is taken out of the realm of greed and put into the realm of doing what is best for the healthcare of Americans there is plenty of opportunity for lowering costs. The reasons we pay the MOST for healthcare rated 37th on the quality list have mostly to do with the structural contradictions of having it be a for profit industry
September 9th, 2009 at 7:13 pmIs is possible the Republicans have underestimated the anger at health insurance companies? If they did, then that may not bode well for the 2010 elections.
September 9th, 2009 at 7:29 pmpags2 says:
Is is possible the Republicans have underestimated the anger at health insurance companies? If they did, then that may not bode well for the 2010 elections.
will bet they are counting on the other corporate power interwoven with health care and Big Pharma, the media, to keep the masses ignorant. Their problem is, too many have been screwed and are seeing the truth.
September 9th, 2009 at 7:40 pmRich H says:
Just give all the democratic members of congress baseball bats so they can “send” a message next time their in session.
September 9th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
Totally OT, your suggestion reminded me of a long-ago Mets game–it was ’seat-cushion day’, so everyone in the stands had a seat cushion. The game was so bad that fans started throwing the cushions at the field. Wayne and I had commented “good thing it wasn’t ‘miniature bat day’, like the Yankees once had. We marveled that anyone would be dumb enough to basically ‘arm’ 50,000 to 60,000 New Yorkers!
Sorry, see y’all after the speech.
September 9th, 2009 at 8:20 pm“Compassionate conservatism” at its best.
September 9th, 2009 at 8:40 pmThe question is whether this incident is the exception rather than norm. If these astroturfers have misguided legislators about true public opinion, the legislators may find themselves fighting to hold on to their offices. Just because the legislator does not get a lot of feedback from his constituents, does not mean they approve.
September 9th, 2009 at 8:46 pm.
I hope that the balding gray haired man in the blue shirt with the red logo works for Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA). It appears as if he performed a hand off so as to initiate some level of contact for Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) so as to do a follow-up BY the Rep.
I hope…
… Fingers crossed.
.
September 10th, 2009 at 2:38 am.
It is unfortunate that Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) felt it that it is the constituent who is come up with solutions to his dilemma. A dilemma that currently, is being encouraged through the very body that which Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) is elected too.
Funny,
It is the Congressman who should have a hand in this solution, at least. At best, the Congressman should fight for the plight OF his constituent in achieving a solution. But look where the Congress stands…
… And who stands behind him.
.
September 10th, 2009 at 2:46 amkwsventures
You clearly know nothing about economics other than what you didn’t sleep through in Econ 101.
Supply and demand are not the only forces that exist in the economy. Supply and demand are also not perfect. In the case of goods and services that do not fit the textbook scenario – like in the case of a monopoly, for example, such as the utilities providers – the concepts don’t work as they describe in the textbooks. Actually, very little of the economy works as they describe in textbooks.
It would be nice if economics could be broken down into something so painfully simple that even a mental midget like yourself could comprehend it, but that is not the case. You embarrass yourself and insult the intelligence of the rest of us when you pretend that it is.
September 10th, 2009 at 8:47 amPaul Broun=A charter member of the GOP death panel.
September 10th, 2009 at 1:37 pmThank you for your sharing.!
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September 15th, 2009 at 8:06 am