Understanding John Boehner’s Lack of Understanding

Posted by stevebenen at 7:24 am
February 26, 2010

Understanding John Boehner’s Lack of Understanding


House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) didn’t have a whole lot to say at the health care summit yesterday, but when the topic at hand was mandates in the system, the GOP leader took his turn at the mic. Boehner brushed past the subject, and instead asked a few rhetorical questions.



It’s important to keep the larger context in mind. Boehner’s comments came fairly late in the day, which means policymakers had already discussed, in considerable detail, exactly why Democrats and Republicans disagree on insurance reform, across state lines, and medical malpractice. In other words, Boehner wasn’t posing these questions in an opening statement, hoping to lay the groundwork for additional discussion; he was posing questions that everyone in the room already knew the answers to. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/02/26/understanding-john-boehners-lack-of-understanding/

That what republicon crony insurance and 'health care' profit-making corporations want: no comprendo.

Besides, it's tough to get any reality through a thick layer of ManTan.

self-tanning product have invaded his brain and have left him dumb...




Tikki

The man is nothing but an obstructionist whore. The irony is that he apparently is not even comfortable with the color of his own skin let alone President Obama's.

Maybe we should ask the medical profession to police itself a little better. Wouldn't that be a nice free market solution? Wouldn't cost taxpayers a dime for doctors to weed out the impaired and the incompetent by themselves? I wonder why Boehner doesn't bring that up to his good friend and colleague Dr. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma?

who has been sued for malpractice more than once.

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than you can about your doctors.

Malpractice is prevalent all over the medical profession and it is not limited to Medicare or Medicaid. The problem lies with the doctors who will not police themselves. They cover each other's ass. The insurance companies will not do anything because they can just raise the rates to cover loses. I have reported several doctors to insurance companies and they refuse to investigate.

from the real problem...greed from the insurance companies.

It was all he had to say. If he got to speak first it would have sounded in context and although anyone with half a brain would have seen it as blather from an idiot at that time, later it was just way more than an embarrassment. It simply showed that the man had sat there basically unconscious all day long.

...his REAL audience, the people on his fundraising mailing list.

His fundraising pitches will prominently uote his big address to the big healthcare summit, and the people reading it will see him saying the sort of things they expect him to say. The fact that it was bizzarly out of context for the summit will be erased entirely.

The guy is a huckster and a whore who's just catapulting corporatist propaganda.