Cincinnati Republican Rob Portman is running for a U.S. Senate. His opponent is Lee Fisher, the Lt. Governor. Seemingly just the other day, the lovely Mrs. Gammons attended elementary school with Portman, known then as Robbie. She reports that, in those days, Robbie was cute. Clearly, those days are over for the cadaverous candidate. But I digress.
Recently both candidates were asked for their opinions on the health care reform bill passed earlier this year. Fisher said he liked it, but felt it didn't go far enough. He personally favored a single payer system as a means to control costs and reduce the inefficiencies of our current 1300-payer system. (Buster happens to agree with this viewpoint.)
Portman is the former G.W. Bush U.S. Trade Representative and is thoroughly steeped in the Bush/Cheney TEA. He said he agreed with the expanded access and coverage of pre-existing conditions that the law provides. (Me too.) He said he felt it didn't go far enough in containing costs. (Me too again.) Then Robbie said that therefore he thought the whole thing should be blown up and, if elected, his first priority would be to repeal health care reform. Huh? WTF?? You essentially approve but nevertheless want to start all over. Later. Sometime between now and Armeggedon. And what is Robbie's big idea for cost control? The doctors' favorite bitch, malpractice law reform. OK, but malpractice costs are a piss-drop in the toilet bowl of total health care costs. The real culprits are the charges billed for medical services, the insurance premiums paid for coverage of same, and the administrative redundancy inherent in our current set-up. They are sucking each other along in a never-ending upward spiral.
Yo, Robbie! Take your dick out of the A.M.A.'s mouth and wake up!
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