Health care Tea Party

Attended a local Tea Party on health care reform yesterday. The main speaker, really, the only speaker, was my congressman Jack Kingston. Jack's a nice guy, but he's still a politician, trying to stay in office. He drew a huge crowd...overflow, and people were standing elbow to elbow.

I arrived late, in other words, on time. By that time, the place was running over. From where I stood, it was difficult to hear what he had to say. I knew he would talk about how the good guys (republicans)wanted to pass something different and better from the bad guys (dems). That's a given. I'm pretty sure, most of us attending, didn't want anybody to pass anything, except perhaps, some Tort reform. That's why I went. I wanted to ask about that. Not being able to hear, and not wanting to bully my way to the front, I left about half way into the talk. I could read about it in the paper, the following (this)morning. Wrong.

Not one word in the local paper. I did run into a friend who stayed for the whole show. He said, far as he knew, nothing was said about Tort reform. He said there was a mention of the cost of malpractice insurance being about one-third the cost of medical care.

That's a lot. Seems to me, enough to warrant some action. But, I guess the trial lawyers lobby is pretty strong.

Oh, and what a surprise. I found out today, that the reason I was even at the talk, was because the big, bad insurance companies had coerced me to attend and be loud and unruly. HMMM. And--I may be getting a check for showing up, too. Uh huh.

I guess that just because that's the way they work, the dems think everybody else does the same. Oh, well.

Did you see or hear the commercial the dems were running today? I just hope the candidates supporting HO's healthcare plan believe it...I also hope a lot of them are up for re-election in 2010.

I hope you will join with me in sending them packing.