A Ohio Republican made a major mistake. He actually held a Town Hall meeting that was not pre-stocked with supporters to cheer on his assault on America. As a result he got a taste of some authentic grass roots activism. One senior citizen not only shows us what a Town Hall meeting, without Republican astro-turf, can be, but serves as an example to us all with a question we should all be asking. “Where is the Republican plan?”
Guess what happens when a congressional town meeting audience isn’t created by the Koch brothers or fueled by Fox News? There’s a different kind of confrontation. Here’s what happened at a meeting earlier this week at Ohio’s Walsh University, with GOP Rep. Jim Renacci (OH)…
…An informed constituency is a beautiful thing, and those are pretty good questions for the Congressman, and for all Republicans. "There’s a lot of things that took effect that help seniors. Once you repeal it, what happens to all that? And what are you going to replace it? Why don’t you make a replacement plan before you repeal it so we can look at it?"
As more people derive more benefit from the provisions that have kicked in–no denials for children because of pre-existing conditions, savings for Medicare recipients, adult children being able to stay on their parents’ plans, incentives for small businesses to provide benefits–more people are going to be asking the same question: what’s the Republican plan? [emphasis added]
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Don’t get me wrong. The HCR we passed has some major problems, but the solution is to fix the problems, not trash the plan altogether, or if we are going to trash the plan altogether, trash it together with implementing something better, like Medicare for all. Republicans do have a plan for health care. They just don’t want us to know what it is, but we can see it in action by looking at Jan Brewer’s treatment of Medicaid patients needing organ transplants. That is RepubliCare in action.
19 Responses to “Health Care: Where is the Republican Plan?”
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OMG, TC this is an amazing clip!! That guy in the audience is masterful!!!
Sue, he just had a pair and used them. We don’t often see it for two reasons. First, most US voters are politically ignorant out of laziness, apathy, and the failure of the MSM. Second, most Republican events are stocked exclusively with a preselected audience.
I wish there was a cleaned up version. The echoing made it very difficult to understand. I got the audience speaker’s concept better than the practiced politician’s. I just couldn’t hear anything that sounded like an answer. That says something, doesn’t it?
Cellophane, I don’t believe the buffoon had an answer to the good mans questions LOL!
Marva, Sue is right, but if you click through the original source has a transcript.
What a perfect way and forum to pin a parrot-boy, talking points Republican down! The SOB never gave him an answer either, did he? They HAVE NO PLAN but a return to the past!
Jack, that’s half the essence of RepubliCare. The other half is to remove the safety net.
It’s less that the constituent was masterful than that lying is hard to defend.
Welcome Bill! 🙂
Well said!
Mr. Renacci said in part “anytime you want I will take you to three businesses that have lost 7 or 8 jobs because their health care costs went up 68%” to which the man responded. “I’m ready right now.”
Then he acknowledged though quietly that there were some good things in the bill but that “medicare was going to be cut by $500,000” The man replied that’s to “Medicare Advantage plans why should the insurance companies be making money off of Medicare like that anyway?” renaccie turned from the man “I will revisit that issue later”
There was more but I will admit that i did like watching the worm on the hook even though I don’t fish.
Thanks Mark. Isn’t it like Republicans to blame corporatre greed on government policy?
@TomCat – Awesome Avatar =D
Welcome Playboy. 😀
Thanks!
Medical tests have called into question whether Dan Fonte, that fantastic forceful – but CIVIL – inquisitor of Rep. Renacci, is really a Democrat. It’s because X-rays revealed that Mr. Fonte actually has a spine!
(Now if only a bunch of Dems in Congress could grow one, we’d all be better off.)
LOL @ Nameless!! 😀
I assumed he was an independent. 😉
That man was right on every single point – if they replace HCR, what are they going to replace it with? And is it going to be up for review like the Repubs insisted they would? If it is, EVERYONE’S gonna HATE it. That man had some serious balls. Bet that rep won’t go to a pre-screened town hall again, dumass. Where are those Teabaggers when you need them?
Lisa, don’t you mean that his events will be pre-screened from now on?
It is frightening when you peer through the lies I mean rhetoric and see what Republicans really want to do. The millions without a job the 50 million without insurance increasing foreclosures, those are merely an inconvenience to lie about.
Their agenda is to eliminate the middle class and establish one party rule.