A Letter To My Congressman Regarding The Healthcare Debate
I just couldn’t take it anymore. All the fear mongering, misinformation, and ill-informed commentary. I had to write my U.S. Congressional representative, a Republican, about my feelings regarding the U.S. healthcare debate. Here is my letter:
Hello,
I am curious. At any of your town hall meetings in August, did you once, while you were denouncing a public plan for health care, say that you will sponsor a bill to totally rescind Medicare, Social Security and Public Education? As you know, all these are government run. I imagine that you did not. You would lose a lot of your electorate if you did that. And therein lies the hypocrisy.
I don’t mind honest debate. I don’t mind disagreement. What I do mind is misinformation, misdirection, hypocrisy and outright lies when talking about an issue.
And when you encourage, or at the very least don’t denounce, ill-informed views that public healthcare will create "death panels", a pure Hitler-like take over by our government, the loss of patient/doctor privilege, etc., then there is an integrity issue. And without integrity in a debate, all is lost.
The healthcare debate has become more about fear-mongering and keeping political power. And that is sad.
I deserve better. The American people deserve better.
Sincerely,
Joel Marcey, citizen of your district.
I will post a response, if I get one.
Just curious, but who is your Congressman? Good for you for voicing your dismay and anger over the blatant degeneration of what should be, for such an important issue, an open, honest, thoughtful debate.
Walrus — Dan Lungren is my Congressman.
I am just tired of the way dissent works in the country now. There is no more intellectual debate, especially on the Republican side I have noticed (although the Democrats can be guilty of it too). The mantra is to spread as much fear as possible and hope they can scare people to death.