Teabagger Senator Exploits Daughter's Heart Condition to Spread Misinformation about Health Reform

[marmar]

from No More Mr. Nice Blog, via AlterNet:




Tea Party Senator Exploits Daughter's Heart Condition to Spread Misinformation about Health Reform


In The Wall Street Journal today, Senator Ron Johnson, the teabag hero who beat Russ Feingold, uses his daughter's early-1980s heart condition to slam health care reform:

... Some years ago, a little girl was born with a serious heart defect: Her aorta and pulmonary artery were reversed. Without immediate intervention, she would not have survived....

She wasn't saved by a bureaucrat, and no government mandate forced her parents to purchase the coverage that saved her. Instead, her care was provided under a run-of-the-mill plan available to every employee of an Oshkosh, Wis., plastics plant.

If you haven't guessed, this story touches my heart because the girl is my daughter, Carey....

I don't even want to think what might have happened if she had been born at a time and place where government defined the limits for most insurance policies and set precedents on what would be covered....

Notice Johnson's reference to "every employee of an Oshkosh, Wis., plastics plant." Here's the thing he doesn't mention and clearly doesn't want his readers nationwide to realize: he wasn't just an employee -- he was an owner of the company, called Pacur, which (depending on which story you believe) was either founded in 1977 by some of his in-laws or founded in 1979 by Johnson with an in-law. (It's clear that the company was named for Johnson's brother-in-law, Patrick Curler, and had one of his father-in-law's companies as its only customer for quite some time.) ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/537804/tea_party_senator_exploits_daughter%27s_heart_condition_to_spread_misinformation_about_health_reform/

[tularetom]

1. The tried and true American route to wealth

Inherit it - or marry into it.

On edit: And then pretend you earned it and express contempt for those who don't have it.

[Drale]

2. I would really love to be their when these people find out

where they are going to end up after they die.

[PA Democrat]

3. Tell it to people who have to buy individual policies.

No insurance company would cover his daughter.

[elehhhhna]

4. His daughter now has a pre-existing condition. Force him to call some ins. co's and ask for quotes

Betcha ten bucks she'll be on his (GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE ENTITLEMENT) ins 'til she's 26, thanks to the new law..

[surrealAmerican]

7. If she was born in the early eighties ...

... she's already too old for that.

[Angry Dragon]

5. And his employees were prison labor

[jillan]

6. Well Ron, be grateful that you had insurance because if you didn't you would find out what limits on

healthcare is really about.