When All Else Fails......Pull the Heart Strings

What do you do when the public catches on to the fact that your new Health Care Bill is going to do nothing but raise our health care costs and taxes and ultimately reduce the level of the care we receive? You tell tear-jerking stories like this (see below) and do everything you can to keep people focused on emotions and not facts.

I certainly believe we as citizens have a responsibility to care for those who cannot care for themselves. However, I believe we as "citizens", not we as the Federal Government, have a responsibility to care for those who cannot care for themselves.

I do not believe the Federal Government should overhaul and socialize our entire health care industry and possibly put this country into a completely unsustainable situation as far as entitlement spending is concerned so that we can have a few emotional stories to tell.

How much more powerful would the story below be if it read that a concerned group of citizens, church leaders, etc., etc. in the community of Keene, NH banded together to provide for Gail O'Brien's needs.

It is has been said that the bigger the government, the worse the citizen. I think we are seeing that play out every single day in this country:

The White House launched a new website with a link titled "50 States, 50 Stories.’’ He was hosting more than 30 state insurance officials at the White House (including Bay State insurance commissioner Joseph Murphy) and visiting a Virginia family to discuss the legislation.

The effort to show tangible benefits includes a White House-produced web video of a Keene, NH woman – Gail O’Brien – who has non-Hodgkins lymphoma. She lacked insurance when she was diagnosed and said she was denied coverage because she was already sick. But since the law’s passage she has been able to buy coverage through a new pre-existing condition insurance plan established under the law. Obama said she was the first NH resident to sign up for the pre-existing plan.

On the administration’s promotional video, O’Brien receives what the White House describes as a "surprise phone call’’ from the president, who is shown speaking to her from the Oval Office.

"If it wasn’t for you, I probably wouldn’t be here right now,’’ O’Brien tells the president, from the dining room of her bungalow. The president replies: "You’re the poster child for why this is so necessary and why we’re so proud of the reforms we initiated.’’