Durbin Evades Townhalls

Holds events by invitation only. Seems kind of orchestrated to me. Do you work for us or do we work for you, Sen. Durbin? Here's one of the participants. Quad-City Times:

"We have gotten into the mindset that health care is a consumer product," said Dr. Peter Metcalf, a pediatrician with Genesis Health Systems. "We need to start looking at health care as a limited, finite resource.

Consumers in charge of their own healthcare--a foreign concept to this doctor, a brother in arms to Rahmbo's Deadly Doctor brother. There were some questions the paper didn't cover:

Some questions by today's panel of doctors and nurses will be taken back to Washington with the Senator: Will there be enough primary care providers for all of these newly insured people when the industry is short physicians as it is? And, why should people who are covered have to give up their insurance just to give to people who haven't got it?

"If you have health insurance that you like, you can keep it. If you want health insurance and don't have it and want something better, you should have the same option the members or federal employees are able to choose from private health insurance plans that best for you and your family," explains Senator Durbin.

You lie Senator. Under current bills, we won't be able to keep our own insurance. (As far as the Congress keeping theirs, yes they can--I believe an amendment calling for them to have the same coverage as the rest of us narrowly passed a Senate committee, but not the House.) Fortune editor Shawn Tully, CNN Money--no conservative-- via Newbusters:

In short, the Obama platform would mandate extremely full, expensive, and highly subsidized coverage -- including a lot of benefits people would never pay for with their own money -- but deliver it through a highly restrictive, HMO-style plan that will determine what care and tests you can and can't have. It's a revolution, all right, but in the wrong direction.

Tully then lists and discusses the five freedoms lost under ObamaCare:

1. Freedom to choose what's in your plan
2. Freedom to be rewarded for healthy living, or pay your real costs
3. Freedom to choose high-deductible coverage
4. Freedom to keep your existing plan
5. Freedom to choose your doctors

We know why you evade townhalls Sen. Durbin--because you are not telling the truth--and people know it.