After hearing this healthcare forum in which Reps. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX-30) and "Taliban Pete" Sessions (R-TX-32) spoke, I am more persuaded than ever that:
1. "Taliban Pete" doesn't give a rat's a-- about achieving real healthcare reform and...
2. He's very vulnerable when he states in the most heated exchange of the debate that the President's healthcare proposal is "socialized medicine."
In his opening statement, he cried about how the President's proposal would "cut into Medicare." Is Sessions even aware that Medicare is a single payer insurance program? If he really thinks the President's proposal is "socialized medicine," why is he so protective of Medicare?
And since he was so willing to call the president's proposal "socialized medicine," is he also against the Veterans' Administration, a government-run medical program for veterans. If he's against socialized medicine, why isn't he against the VA?
See how "Taliban Pete's" logic flunks the test?
At least twice (as far as I could count), Johnson pointed out the burdens property taxpayers like myself have to endure as Parkland Hospital is forced to handle many uninsured folks through its emergency room care. Both times, Sessions tried to change the subject and instead speak about his party's oft-stated proposal of reforming healthcare through tax cuts.
As if tax cuts would prevent discrimination due to pre-existing careers and as if they could prevent insurance companies from denying coverage to anyone through "rescission."
I hope Sessions gets severely pressed on this glaring flaw in his faulty thinking during tomorrow's townhall at Ranchview High in Irving that starts at 7 p.m.
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