Given the Hospital Association PAC’s decision to donate to Vincent Sheheen, and the fact that our state’s lawyer is threatening to sue the federal gummint over health care reform, and seeing as how I just quoted SC Hospital Association President and CEO Thornton Kirby about the Sheheen thing, it occurred to me that y’all might be interested in hearing what Mr. Kirby said about health care reform at the Columbia Rotary on Monday.
Here’s an audio recording, which begins just a few seconds into his talk. (I keep forgetting to turn the thing on before people start talking…)
I didn’t take a whole lot of notes — why should I, when I’m recording it? Duh.
But basically he played the role of an explainer. He clarified some things that shouldn’t have to be said, such as the fact that this is about health care insurance, not health care itself (despite all that wacky talk from people such as Joe Wilson about a gummint “takeover” of health care). He also noted how schizophrenic we are in this country, insisting upon the best of care, and outraged at what it costs.
At the end of his talk, I asked him if he knew of a good source for learning the specifics of what is currently being debated in Washington. He suggested the Kaiser Family Foundation. Here’s a link to that. There’s also an interesting comparison between the House and Senate plans here, by the NYT.
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Joe was there, I believe, unless he snuck out…wonder if he was listening?
Thank you for providing those informative links. A lot of emotion has been reported but this is the first I’ve seen with some facts.
Kathryn, As far as I can tell, Mr. Wilson is interested in no one but himself, and is certainly not about to be confused by any facts.
if he could even understand them….
“Keep your Guv’ment hands off my Medicare”
A quote from a Town Hall meeting in South Carolina.
Oh geez, SC has too many wacky citizens: that Medicare Tea Partier that doesn’t want a government run health care system like Medicare (I don’t know if he is a veteran or not or if he used another government run health care system like the Veterans Administration), Miss Teen USA 2007 contestant from SC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww; the Luv Guv, SC Guv’not Mark Sanford; and SC’s Attorney General, Henry McMaster, who is going to sue Congress for legislation that has not yet been signed into law by Obama.