So since this is my first post for Forward Kansas, I like to start out by thanking the good people that put this site together. It is a great place to find all the information you need for Kansas politics and I’m glad that I could be a part of it. Of course, my journalistic abilities might not be up to par with the rest of these bloggers, but I will do my best to provide interesting content.
So here goes…
State Senator Mary Pilcher Cook and House members Peggy Mast and Brenda Landweh have schedule four news conferences to announce what they are calling the “Health Care Freedom Amendment.” Basically, this is an attempt to continue spreading the lies about health care reform that it is a really scary idea. The purpose of the amendment is a response to federal health care reform that ensures patients they will continue to be able to confer with their regular doctor, instead of some government sanctioned physician they would otherwise be forced to visit.
I would normally ask “how dumb do our elected officials think we are?” However, people are scared about change, and maybe rightfully so, but only because a lot of people refuse to become informed. There is nothing being debated in the current reform attempt that would forbid people to see their family doctors. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. Sure I don’t know all the specifics of the bill(s) that are going through our Congress right now, but the goal is not worse health care. It is to finally provide health care for our citizens that is adequate. It is to protect the citizens from the greedy, manipulating insurance companies’ bottom line. It is to make sure no one is denied health care because they got sick, or donated a kidney, or were too overweight for an infant, or even raped.
Our GOP elected officials continue to protect the insurance companies against us. And what’s amazing is that people support this. They vote to make sure shareholders and executives get richer and we as a populous get sicker and poorer. The Republican Party (and even some Democrats) is not concerned with the well-being of our citizens, they are concerned with how much money they will make. So they spread rumors to scare people about change, and we all know that change is harder to obtain than the status quo.
The news conferences are scheduled for the following times: 9 a.m. in Wichita, 11:30 a.m. in Emporia, 2 p.m. in the state Senate chamber in Topeka and 4 p.m. in Overland Park.
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