For this post I don’t have any references to cite as the paragraph I’m examining is just statements made without anything to back them up at all. I should have another post up fairly soon with a little more evidence based writing for your perusal.
H.R. 3200, the America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, while not perfect, provides quality affordable health care for all Americans and helps controls health care costs. I have worked hard to improve the bill, and I will continue to work with my colleagues to make sure H.R. 3200 meets the health care needs of all Americans.
- This paragraph provides nothing new. Legislation cannot provide health care of any sort, as only people are capable of doing that. It is possible for the government to use legislation to strong-arm the providers of health care into doing their bidding, of course, but that is hardly likely to produce “quality” care nor does that fit with the general philosophy of our country as a free nation.
- The claims above are just not backed up by anything. The Congressman is just asking people to take it on faith that he’s telling the truth. The fact that so far in his letter every verifiable statement has turned out to be false or a dramatic exaggeration shows his statements so far to be… unreliable.
- The last statement is just silly. The vast majority of Americans already have their health care needs met. HR3200 is over 1000 pages of legislation and HR3962 is nearly 2000. Even if the legislation could provide health care to the remaining sliver of the population that is supposedly missing it (and again…coverage is the only thing they can actually arrange for so it’s really a false sense of security they are providing) do we really need that many pages of legislation to take care of the problem?
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