Debbie Halvorson's current biggest hammer on 11th CD opponent Marty Ozinga is that he's insensitive to the nation's uninsured health care needs. Despite the fact Marty and his family have donated millions to build first class health care facilities from the south suburbs where he lives to the south Loop's Pacific Garden Mission all the way to Uganda, Halvorson insists he doesn't care about affordable health care.
"Affordable"? You mean like "affordable housing"? Is that where Halvorson and the Dems are headed? Affordable health care. Affordable housing. The kind of imposed affordable housing that has led to the collapse of America's lending institutions? Is this what she wants?
Halvorson's taken this "affordable" jag so far as to run an ad that attacks Ozinga and use these words on her website HERE to emphasize:
“In Illinois, 1.7 million people are uninsured. And there are 47 million Americans out there without health insurance, and it’s gone up on President Bush’s watch,” Halvorson said. “If we leave people to simply go to the emergency room, we’re doing a grave injustice to those who just can’t afford quality health insurance. That’s just wrong.”
“We have a moral obligation to do better, because there are just too many families out there being crushed by medical expenses—even if they’re lucky enough to have health insurance in the first place,” said Halvorson. “We can do more to make health insurance more affordable and more accessible. That’s why I’m running for Congress.”
Let's see, during the Clinton Administration's early 90s imposition of lowering lending standards and projecting "affordable housing" a young Barack Obama was involved in helping to promote Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
With some archive scouring, how difficult do you think it would be to find a passage something like this:
"In Illinois, we have millions who are homeless and in need of affordable housing. We can't leave these people without their own part of the American dream. That need to have access to their own homes, like everyone else.
(Whether they can pay for it or not? Isn't the point, I suppose . . . )
"We have a moral obligation to do better, because there are just too many families without homes. we can do more to make housing more affordable and accessible. That's why I'm running for Congress . . . "
Look what that "affordable" gig got us. A $700 billion bailout that you and I -- the ones who sweat and toil and do without during hard times to make our mortgage payments -- will have to pay for.
Is that where we're headed in making health care more "affordable"?
Mrs. Halvorson, we just can't afford any more affordable programs.
