Ablogination

Sometimes, you find a Congressional incumbent that is so morally and intellectually challenged that it becomes difficult to know when to stop laughing and begin sobbing.

I mean, listening to pathetic people attempt to lie in your face like a child that’s just been caught stealing from mom’s purse can be amusing in a strange sort of way. Until you realize that each and every one of those lies causes harm. That’s when it becomes sad…

Rep. Phil Roe of the First District of Tennessee. It’s sad that a man who’s come so far in life could be reduced to a petty conservative shill in just two years of office. But reality is often a sorrowful reminder to keep one’s moral compass in good working order.

The latest lies from the asp-like lips of Phil Roe (via campaign email):

As you know, I have spent a lot of time and attention on health care reform in our nation. Now that the bill has been signed into law, the implementation of the Democrats’ health care legislation is underway. The picture of what this will actually do and how it will affect us individually is becoming more clear. At the risk of sounding repetitive, more and more of what I see and hear from reports is distressing.

No, Phil. You’ve spent a lot of time and attention trying to prevent the people of this nation from having affordable health care.

As far as repetitiveness goes, you, like most Republican politicians, firmly believe in the age old principal that if one repeats a lie often enough someone will believe it.

Remember President Obama’s fundamental promise when talking about health care reform: “If you like the health coverage you have today, you can keep it”?

Well, new rules released from the Obama Administration on Monday cast a lot of doubt on this promise. The health care law allows Americans to keep their health care coverage – so long as their health care plan doesn’t make any significant changes.

So, what happens if a plan wants to add a new cancer drug or a new form of treatment for diabetes? You guessed it - government bureaucrats in the Administration get to decide whether the health plan can make that change without you giving up your “right” to keep that plan you like.

Lying sack of shit.
The “significant changes” you queefed about are generally limited to…
a) the insurance company reducing your benefits out of the blue,
and
b) the insurance company increasing the insured’s out-of-pocket expenses “significantly".
Meaning, if your current plan significantly reduces your benefits or increases your out-of-pocket spending above what it was when the new law was enacted, then your plan will lose its “grandfather” status and you will gain additional new benefits under the Act.
These additional new benefits will alter the insured’s plan in a beneficial manner, but the insured will not have to go to some other insurance company as you so wistfully imply, Little Lord FauntleROEy.

And to imply that anyone in the gov’t would make the insured give up their policy because the insurer added a new medication to coverage is such an incomparable LIE that I have no choice but offer this electronic bitch-slap in your Gerbal face.

The reality is, health care plans constantly change out of necessity, and now when they change, Americans will be at risk of losing their existing health care plan

You mean, Americans will be at risk of having their insurance plans improved by the legal requirements. Don’t you, sweet pants?

Analysts say these new stringent regulations set by the Administration on Monday could force up to 80% of employers to change the current coverage for their employees. Higher costs will force many to new government-regulated marketplaces called “exchanges.” Once they’re there, you can bet that we’ll start hearing from advocates of single-payer health care that private insurers can’t take care of us – when it was their “reform” that destroyed their ability to do so in the first place.

Analysts? Name them, Philie.

And I’m glad you mentioned “employers", since I am one and all….
Your email of lies was intended to make the average person with their own, private insurance think that their private policy would change. It won’t. The discussion here is 100% about employer offered insurance. Something 1 in 5 American workers don’t even get to enjoy.

Employees in the “exchanges” are better off than they were when they had no insurance at all.

And yes, we should have gone to Single Payer in the first place since it’s the most cost effective method of delivering health insurance to all Americans. But that wouldn’t agree with your industry, would it, Phil?

Ultimately, this bad bill will not only reduce access to care, but it will certainly reduce the quality of care, as care is eventually rationed. This is not what I want, nor is it what the American people want – but the emerging details indicate that is what we’re going to get.

To those of us in Tennessee who have seen the ramifications of TennCare, it’s clear why we need to replace this legislation with reforms that actually promote competition and reduce costs.

Again, moron, this mediocre bill will increase access to care because that 1 of every 5 American workers will be covered by the exchanges.
Do you even know what you said?? Reduced quality care is a lie. Any care is better than no care at all and the quality of it is dependent on the integrity of the hospital and physician. Not legislation.

You don’t speak for the American people, and nobody cares what YOU want. We pay for you and your family to have the best care on earth. Now we’re going to get ours and you will not interfere.
Of course I realize that your political party and your corporate scum money-men, like John Gregory and many others, robbed TennCare (and the TN taxpayer) into bankruptcy, but I think I need to remind you that TennCare still saves thousands of lives in this state every year and I think it disgusting that you would belittle that reality for political gain.

You, sir, are a horse’s ass, and that’s why Mike Clark gets our vote for United States Congress. At least he won’t do any harm.

Primum non nocere, Dr. Roe.