Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Heartless Eric Cantor Might As Well Have Said, "Let Her Eat Cake"

We in Texas' 32nd congressional district aren't the only ones represented in Congress by heartless politicians who'd rather do the bidding of anti-healthcare reform corporations rather than average folks like me.
Here's Virginia Rep. Eric Cantor showing total heartlessness toward a needing constituent:

Here's the transcript of Cantor's exchange with Patricia Churchill, who has a relative who lost her job and hs fighting cancer:
CHURCHILL: I have a very close relative, a woman in her early forties, who did have a wonderful, high-paying job, owns her own home and is a real contributing member of society. She lost her job. Just a couple of weeks ago, she found out that she has tumors in her belly and that she needs an operation. Her doctors told her that they are growing and that she needs to get this operation quickly. She has no insurance. [...]
CANTOR: First of all I guess I would ask what the situation is in terms of income eligibility and the existing programs that are out there. Because if we look at the uninsured that are out there right now, there is probably 23, 24% of the uninsured that is already eligible for an existing government program [...] Beyond that, I know that there are programs, there are charitable organizations, there are hospitals here who do provide charity care if there’s an instance of indigency and the individual is not eligible for existing programs that there can be some cooperative effort. No one in this country, given who we are, should be sitting without an option to be addressed.

Doesn't Cantor get it, or is he too busy playing games on Twitter (like he was while President Obama was speaking on healthcare reform) to be concerned with the people's business? The health system is broken, in part because it provides no real remedies for folks like Ms. Churchill's relative who runs into hard times and then gets ill and needs help.
Real healthcare reform can't wait. It must pass WITH a real and robust public option.

2 comments:

  1. Its funny you attack him, since his advice mirrors many of the ideas and advice posted on the American Cancer Society page:

    http://www.cancer.org/docroot/HOME/pff/PFF_5_1_How_Will_I_Pay_for_all_This.asp?sitearea=PFF

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  2. This woman shouldn't have been told to beg for charity by anyone,especially one of the House's main Republicans. This further illustrates what's wrong with our current broken healthcare system that must be scrapped and replaced with one that truly serves citizens, not for-profit insurance companies.

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