October 31, 2008
Dole Robocall – “Queen of Health Care”
Today The US Chamber of Commerce sent out a robocall all around NC – I got it in CH and I hear folks got it down East as well. It’s about how Dole has fought to make health care more affordable – what a joke. Remember Dole voted (repeatedly) against expanding health coverage for children just this year – through a bipartisan effort spearheaded by fellow R Orrin Hatch. She’s done nothing – nothing – to try and expand health coverage for families. She has a paragraph – that’s right – one small paragraph – on her website that is the entirety of her health care reform plans.
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To be fair, the SCHIP bill in question wouldn’t have necessarily expanded health care– a lot of observers said it would move people off private health care plans and onto public ones. These would have been middle class families; the poorest ones are already covered.
She should put a lot more relating to health care on her site.
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I received the same robocall and was infuriated that she would make such a claim. I visited with her Health Policy Advisor in DC last spring to ask her to support full funding and expansion of SCHIP, but first I had to explain to her own Health Policy Advisor what SCHIP was because she admitted that she didn’t know. If her own Health Policy Advisor didn’t know anything about SCHIP then how can she pass along critical information to Senator Dole? She can’t and from Senator Dole’s history of not supporting public health programs it doesn’t surprise me. Her claim to have made health care more affordable is just one more lie. Luckily, more people are seeing the lies, fear mongering, etc from the republican party for what it really is, a diversion from the issues because they don’t have a candidate that has shown he or she will really address the issues to benefit the majority of the population.
I got the call here in Duplin county. It sounded like the reference to making health care more affordable was the Medicare prescription drug bill. It’s too funny that the one accomplishment they point to in the call is so blatantly a “socialist” approach to health care policy. Makes you wonder – why would she and McCain and other free-market purists voted for such a “socialist” approach. I mean, wouldn’t a tax credit to help seniors purchase drugs have been a better approach? Oh but wait, to reach most seniors the tax credit would have to be refundable and that’s “spreading the wealth around.” No wonder, as Adam points out, there’s only one itty bitty paragraph on her website about health care reform!
I do have to take issue with you guys on one point. Dole does not include any health care proposals on her website. Instead, the only mention of her opinions on health care appear under the heading “accomplishments.”
I actually thought an entire paragraph was sort of long to list her accomplishments.
I got the Chamber call, too. And, one from the RNC. The best was the one from Hugh Webster. Obviously, they are targeting the “registered-from-infancy, yellow dog, chronic Democrat voters who were born and raised in the shadow of Mayor Daley in Chicago”.
It’s interesting that the US Chamber of Commerce would call to support Dole’s health care plan since the chamber has been sharply critical of the proposals made by Dole and McCain.
The US Chamber president has said that their plans will lead to the unraveling of the employer based system of health care. He has also said that the individual-based health insurance system can’t take up the slack.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/10/07/US_Chamber_chilly_toward_McCain_plan/UPI-44581223424411/
Yes – and especially since Hagan, with her pro-business-pretty-conservative-Democratic background, is probably more sympathetic – and certainly much more effective – on many of the chamber’s issues than Dole!