Finally someone who doesn't mince words and speaks to the heart of the matter. I love this man:
Rep. Anthony Weiner on MSNBC's Morning Joe
listening to Joe Scarborough talk makes my ears bleed, but that's beside the point because he barely speaks in this interview. Either because he A) is just "so dumbfounded by [his] question" or B) he doesn't have a (expletive deleted) answer because private healthcare companies provide absolutely nothing to our society.
and then there was that time that Rep. Weiner took on Ms. Bartiromo on MSNBC
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do you really believe my (and your) health care should be controlled by politics and the government?
government regulation and drug corporations have complicated the current "private" health care system. in our current faux free market health care system, $.50 on every 'health care dollar' is spent by the government on health care programs currently in place (medicare, medicaid, etc). how is advocating for more politics and bureaucracy going to solve a government caused problem?
it seems to me like the government is, in fact, the problem. most definitely not the solution. do you think it's okay to force me to pay for a plan you support (via taxes) if i think the plan is unjust and ineffective?
just a thought.. ♥
I do actually believe there should be a public option, which is not to say that I think that everyone's health care should be controlled by politics and the government. A public option does not mean that our government provides universal health care.
I also believe that the current health care system is broken, unsustainable, and in need of some serious changes.
Most importantly, I believe that the media circus surrounding this issue is bizarre, crazy, and unacceptable. Right now one of my co-workers is watching a video about a man who had his finger bitten off during a town hall meeting last night and the correspondent is holding proponents of health care reform responsible for it; I can hardly believe that this is real. It strikes me that the debate and the rhetoric has completely jumped the track.
In the midst of all of this, I appreciate Rep. Weiner as a voice of sanity. He doesn't mince words and he talks about his plan very reasonably. I agree with a lot of his talking points - specifically that it will be more expensive to continue to pay for the rise in emergency room visits than it will be to pay for those individuals to have health care through a public option. I don't agree with a lot of the Weiner plan, but I would rather listen to him detail a plan that I don't agree with than listen to Joe Scarborough talk about "death panels" again.
My point in posting the interviews with Rep. Weiner is to advocate reasonability and reason in the media rhetoric, not to advocate for his plan.
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