Rep. Pete Olson Booed For Suggesting Baby Would Die Under Public Option (VIDEO)

Source: Huffington Post

At a recent town hall meeting, Rep. Pete Olson (R-Texas) was booed for suggesting a baby would have not been born if we had a government-run health care option.

Olson told the story of Britney, a pregnant woman who couldn't find a doctor who would treat her unborn child's heart defect. After being turned away by several, she hunted down a specialist in Detroit who was willing to perform the procedure. Britney is convinced that her son would not have been born if there was a public option then, and she wouldn't have had the choices to find the doctor that she wants.

Over applause, a number of audience members audibly groan. "Oh Jesus Crist, that's terrible," says one attendee. "That's not true," says another.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/31/rep-pete-olson-booed-for_n_272786.html

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How 'bout that? Texas, no less. About damn time, I say

We cannot let them win.

how the insurance companies denied her, not the government.

:banghead:

This is the precise reason for the tactic of shouting everyone else out.

We now live in a world where saying anything is OK. I am completely baffled as to why health insurance for all, and with a public option, is bad for people. I know it is a stretch to compare the wildfires with health insurance. But those planes that try to put out the fires? That's a public option. Those fire fighters, and RIP those poor, brave souls who lost their lives? That's a public option. When The Governator ask for federal assistance? That's a public option. No one would think for a second, at least sensibly, that fighting forests fires shouldn't be a public option. So what's with health insurance? Why would anyone think this isn't a good public option?

"Britney ... couldn't find a doctor who would treat her unborn child's heart defect." Gee, that would mean that in our current, for-profit, big insurance corporations with huge CEO salaries world her fetus was DENIED care. Yep, that baby stood before the private insurance company health care death panels and they decided the baby should DIE. You could think of it as abortion or murder. You can think of them as baby-killers.

In any case the private, for-profit, health-care companies made the decision to KILL Britney's baby.

Well isn't that just too bad? I guess we should ignore it because private industry is always so much better than government. Except for public transportation, the interstate system, public libraries, police, firemen, the FAA who keeps planes from colliding in mid-air, FEMA, Social Security, Medicare, the military and some other stuff. But hey, we have to remember that government is the problem - not the solution. That's what Saint Reagan always said.

This is getting more and more ridiculous. :eyes:

My niece, having lost a previous baby at birth, recently had a baby boy with a major heart defect. They'd known about it since about 5 months into the pregnancy. She was hospitalized for the last month and a half, baby was operated on by the best pediatric cardiac specialist in Alberta two weeks after birth, giving him just enough time to get stronger. They completely abandoned the left side of his heart in an amazing 6 hour surgery. He's doing extremely well. The procedure, surgeon, treatment were never questioned .... this baby needed help and got it. It was just a given. This happens every day all across Canada. High-risk pregnancies are not terminated because of cost or anything else.

doesn't make it true. These creeps convince vulnerable people that they would have been screwed had there been health care reform and the poor fools believe it. Then there beliefs are touted as some kind of proof that health care reform would screw them.

The GOP makes stuff up and it's about time that people are wising up to that fact.

mother's like me would speak to groups throughout the US telling them that our babies were kept alive by a public option called MEDICAID.

When she was born in 1958 the doctors told us that it was a miracle that she was alive she was so severely disabled. They gave her a 30 year life expectancy. Today she is 51 years old and still severely disabled (in a wheelchair, tube fed, incontinent, unable to talk, with daily seizures and a developmental disability). She is relatively healthy for her diagnosis and happy. For her entire life she has been on Medicaid and now Medicare. She has lacked nothing she needed and many doctors went the extra mile to help me understand how to deal with her condition.

There is not an insurance company in the world that would have taken her. She would be dead if they had their way.

People who lie like this can IMO go to hell.

Texas; the George W. bUsh home of the Death Panels.

And a lot of very deeply dumb people.