Mitch McConnell @ invite-only town hall: American health care already the best, reform slowly

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/56869-mcconnell-american-health-care-already-the-best-reform-slowly


McConnell: American health care already the best, reform slowly
By Tony Romm - 08/31/09 01:36 PM ET


America already has "the finest health care in the world," and any reforms to the system ought to be "incremental," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said at a town hall on Monday.

"I can't recall the last time anybody suggested they ought to go to Cuba for a serious piece of surgery, so I want to congratulate you on what you're doing,” he told an invitation-only crowd at the Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City.

Appearing alongside Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Kit Bond (R-Mo.), McConnell also ripped Democrats for pursuing health care reforms that he believed would inflate the deficit, increase the tax burden on small businesses and exacerbate the many problems already hampering Medicare and Medicaid.

“I hope when we go back in after Labor Day that we will step back, start over, and think about the incremental adjustments we need to make in the world's finest healthcare,” McConnell reiterated.

The forum itself was free of interruption -- or deviation from the party line -- and the senators took questions for about an hour. But elsewhere, Democrats were criticizing the Republican trio for holding a town hall meeting that was not open to the general public.

Among them was Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), who vented her reaction in a pithy Twitter message on Thursday. The Missouri senator has held a series of health care forums this month, some of which have turned nasty, and she will hold another town hall today in Springfield, at which she expects more than 1,000 attendants.

What a bunch of pathetic pukes..............

Just like New Orleans has the finest flood control system in the world, right Mitch?

for medical care in the movie Sicko? I guess Mitch hasn't seen it yet.

because their insurance company denied their claim for care, or they just cannot afford the exorbitant rates, may as well be on the Moon.

Chinless Mitch cares only for the profits of his masters, and nothing for actual, living human beings.

Profits Before People. The mantra of the Republic Party.