( – promoted by Colorado Pols)
I missed this last week, but I’m glad it showed up on facebook, because it’s definitely worth a watch, if people haven’t seen it already.
While the House of Representatives was busy voting to repeal the health care law for the 32nd time, Senator Bennet was bringing some Colorado commonsense to the Senate floor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
Bennet read a moving Facebook post from Denver school board member Mary Sewell’s that described where she learned of the Supreme Court’s heath care decision – in the doctor’s office with her daughter who was being diagnosed with diabetes.
It’s a really powerful example, and showed how the debate about repeal and the mandate is missing the point. Washington is debating whether to call the mandate a tax or a penalty. But either way, it will only impact a really small portion of the country. Instead, the debate should be about the majority of Americans throughout the country who are paying higher premiums to cover the cost of the uninsured and people like Mary Sewell and her daughter here in Colorado who won’t have to worry about preexisting conditions for her daughter thanks to the health care law.
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You beat me to it. It makes a nice companion with my piece of last week on the ACA: http://www.coloradopols.com/di…
Senator Bennet makes me proud! He compares well with Jimmy Stewart in “Mr. Smith Goes To Washington”. I look forward to voting for him again in 2016 if he wants to run again.
Too bad we couldn’t add a third senator (like FPE’s 😉 and have Senator Romanoff too.
Yep – I like this guy.
Which means I get Senator Perlmutter, too, so there!
ACA –
yeah, yeah – ACA is fine with the preexisting conditions thing. It’s the death panels and the 16,000 new, armed IRS agents that is the problem. Oh, and free on demand abortion. Even for non citizens.
What’s that you say- none of those things are true? But…but… so many elected officials said so, there must be some confusion. Oh, that’s right no one read this thing. What? Some people did? Including enough SCOTUS clerks to get their bosses to say it’s Constitutional?
Well then it must be the HUGE new taxes. What? $150 per year in 2014. ANd a max of $600? Well sheeit- I pay more than that in copays. ANd way more than that in premiums.
IDFGI.
I’ve been busy with work, and have actually really enjoyed going back to reading quietly, rather than feeling the need to get involved in a lot of debates. Nice to just listen sometimes, like I used to. I’m sure I’ll continue to post, but probably still fairly infrequently.