Bachmann: Health Care Reform Would Create "Hassle" For Me

[babylonsister]

Add selfishness to the hypocrisy of the goopers. And Bachmann is a foster mom to 23 kids? :wow:

Does she get paid for them, and how can she do that with a full-time job?



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/24/bachmann-other-gop-mother_n_244348.html

Bachmann, Other GOP 'Mother Bears' Decry Health Care Reform, Long Fast-Food Lines
Jeff Muskus
Posted: 07-24-09 03:30 PM


Why offer more people health insurance, Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.) asked at a press conference Friday, if they might lengthen waits for doctors and otherwise increase the "hassle factor" for her?

"That's like having a mother bear protecting her little cubs, and she's seeing that she has to move heaven and earth to get her child what her child needs," Bachmann said, referring to the health care reforms being debated by Congress. "We'll do it if we have to, but why put ourselves in that situation?"

Near the end of a tumultuous week of delays for health care bills in both houses of Congress, Bachmann and a handful of other House Republican women said at a press conference that as far as they were concerned, any reform would just make things tougher for them.

"I think most all of us here have had the opportunity to take our kids to a fast-food restaurant," said Rep. Judy Biggert (R-Ill.). "We want to get a good dinner, and you walk in and there's 50 people there and it seems like everybody in line wants to buy food for their soccer team or whatever. The American people aren't particularly good at standing in line, but that's exactly what's going to happen if this health care plan goes through."

"Any mother," Bachmann said, would do whatever it takes to get "the high-quality health care that her child needs... As a mother of five biological children and as a foster mother to 23 children, there is nothing more important to me than to make sure that my children have high-quality health care when they need health care."

Millions of other children, however, do not have the resources that Members of Congress enjoy. New U.S. Census data document that more than 8.1 million, or one in nine, American children did not have health insurance in 2007. According to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, nearly 20 percent of the uninsured in the U.S. are children.

The 2007 Census numbers marked a slight improvement over 2006, but still recorded 428,000 more children uninsured than in 2004, the last year the number of uninsured children decreased.

[Hello_Kitty]

1. She's arguing that others should have no health care

So her family can move to the head of the line.

What an asshole. :grr:

[ejpoeta]

4. the thing is, she already IS at the head of the line, no matter how many people are in line.

that's the fact. so she should go f off!

[robinlynne]

8. If she has foster children, guess who is paying for their health care......the federal

government!!! And hers as well, of course. ok lady, pay for your own kids' health care and see what it feels like!

[DesertFlower]

12. the attitude is

"i've got mine, the hell with you."

[ejpoeta]

2. now, as a foster mother to 23.... who provided health insurance for those foster kids??

because at least in NYS... foster children get medicaid. is it different in bachmann's state?? also.... god forbid people have to stand in line to see their doctor so others can stand in that same line to see a doctor. how friggin often do you go to the doctor anyway?? let me think. ashley went for a check up a couple months ago... and before that??? oh yeah, the last check up, i think. and emily.... well, she takes ritalin, so she has gone more. she went for a check up, AND had to go for a check up for her medicine. omg!! what a HASSLE!!! oh, and we did have to wait at the eyeglass place when i had emy's eyes checked and she needed glasses. how HORRIBLE!!! yes, much better that i don't have to wait and a bunch of other folks don't get to go to the doctor at all.

[robinlynne]

10. EXACTLY. WE are paying for all her childrens' health care right now!

[geek_sabre]

15. and we'd be paying for it even if she wasn't their fostermom...

[redqueen]

16. Yes, but it's sad that she's so dense that she can't see

how badly this, the richest country on earth, treats its citizens.

37th in health care... and we pay far too much for it. But I guess since she cares more about the fatcat execs than the American people, it makes sense.

[ejpoeta]

20. that's not the point i am making. she is citing those 23 foster kids as somehow she is

bearing the responsibility financially for their care or healthcare. She does not. foster parents receive money from the state for the childrens care and they are covered under medicaid.

[gratuitous]

23. Foster mother of 23?

I note that she has carefully elided the fact of whether that's all at the same time. The length of a foster placement can range from a few hours to several years. I'd be willing to bet that the 23 figure represents a total, not a current obligation. Certainly is a good and noble thing to be a foster parent, and I wish Ms. Bachmann and the kids who are or have been in her care all the best. But the idea that she has 23 additional children in her household right this very minute is probably not accurate.

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[HughMoran]

5. idiot moron

I know it's redundant...

[izquierdista]

6. I wasn't on board until now...

But if it will cause annoy her, then I'm with ya! :eyes:

[tanyev]

7. Oh, those poor kids.

Imagine having her as your foster mom. :scared:

[redqueen]

9. 23 kids? When does she get her reality show? (nt)

[babylonsister]

11. And who the hell is Judy Biggert? Her comment is as ignorant as Bachmann's

usually are. Oi.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

13. So fast food lines at a McDonald's are worse than having nothing to eat at all?

I'm trying to understand this Bachmann creature, but she isn't making sense.

[dmr]

14. Where do her 23 + 5 kids live? Who's really taking care of them?

Is she really is a foster mother? Are they in DC with her, or is she an absentee pretending to be a foster mom?

Then the next question is: who is paying for health care of these kids? If it's the tax-payer, well, then, she's participating in what she disdains - Socialistic government. A program that proves it works!

Or - does she just donate to a foster child program in a place like Honduras?

It's my experience that what comes out of her mouth is a bunch of embellished malarkey.

[justiceischeap]

17. I take issue with all of this but particularly part of Biggert's statement

This is what's wrong with the health of our children and why more kids need to see doctor's more frequently:

Emphasis mine

"I think most all of us here have had the opportunity to take our kids to a fast-food restaurant," said Rep. Judy Biggert (R-Ill.). "We want to get a good dinner, and you walk in and there's 50 people there and it seems like everybody in line wants to buy food for their soccer team or whatever. The American people aren't particularly good at standing in line, but that's exactly what's going to happen if this health care plan goes through."

Since when is a fast-food restaurant dinner considered a good dinner? Should this idiot even be talking about fast-food and health care in the same statement?

Geez Louise, these folks just don't think...at all...ever.

[ejpoeta]

21. well, that's where all those dirty common folk go to eat, so maybe that is why she is

using that as her example. the little people, they go to mcdonalds don't they??? the dirty folks she doesn't want infecting her with whatever it is poor people have.

[nightrain]

18. those reps are entirely inaccurate. More scare tactics.

Actually Bachmann, it would simplify your life. If indeed you have that many foster kids, then how simple would one payer be, rather than looking for each kid's payer card when you take them in for care?

[rvablue]

19. Who paid for the "high quality health care" for those foster children?

Oh, right, the government did.

Although I loathe this woman, it's pretty noble of her to have given those kids a home, so I'm not knocking that.

However, I wonder if Bachmann thinks it was a "hassle" when the government paid for her foster kids to stay healthy or get well. I bet not as that subsidy enabled her to help so many kids in need.

She's a damn hypocrite.

[Union Yes]

22. Meanwhile, lack of reform of access to affordable HC creates death.

Michele Batshit would rather see the sick die.

She's an evil disgusting POS.

[abumbyanyothername]

24. Problem properly identified, solution sucks.

Hey Michelle. There's unemployment. How about firing squads? That would fix it wouldn't it?

All she is saying is that we have to have more front line primary care health professionals.

[theothersnippywshrub]

25. Bachmann is incredibly evil, even for the Party of Death. n/t

[sakabatou]

26. Bachmann is completely selfish