I’ve worked hard to keep this blog balanced, keeping my personal politics and preferences to myself and presenting alternate points of view on issues – particularly when it comes to health care reform.
So, when I offer up news of NYC protesters who
I got word that in anticipation of the Senate Finance Committee’s vote on chairman Max Baucus’ (D-Mont.) health care reform bill, the national leadership team of the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition today announced the results of the nationwide online poll conducted over the past two weeks. (Just to clarify for folks who aren’t familiar, the tea partyers are the ones who have staged protests in Washington, D.C., and other major cities against President Obama’s spending policies.)
"We asked the American people to select the top 10 unanswered health care questions from a list of over 30 questions,” says Michael Patrick Leahy, national spokesperson for NTPC. "We are asking President Obama to answer these questions before the Senate Finance Committee votes on the Baucus proposal." More than 44,000 Americans voted in the poll, according to Leahy, and the results are available today
The top 10 unanswered questions for the president are:
10. Do you intend to honor your promise and hold a serious line by line review of proposed health care legislation with members of Congress?
9. Why should the American people trust the administration's numbers rather than the final estimates of the Congressional Budget Office on the cost of your health care proposals?
8. Why should seniors trust the administration more than CBO that your health care proposals will reduce health care benefits to seniors?
7. How can you accuse critics of creating lies about your health care proposals when on several occasions your own words have been found to be misleading?
6. If competition can be expected to reduce costs and increase coverage, why is interstate competition not a key part of your health care proposals?
5. How do you expect Americans to believe you have a grasp and knowledge of the health care proposals when you appear to be unaware that the Baucus proposal specifically includes the word tax?
4. Is the Congressional Research Service in error when it states that H.R. 3200 contains no restrictions on illegals receiving health care benefits?
3. Why aren't you currently acting to stop the waste and fraud you claim to have identified that currently exists in the health care system?
2. Why won't government employees and elected officials be covered under a nationwide health care plan?
1. Is there a good reason or explanation you can give the American people why your plans don't include a single word that addresses this terrible problem of lawsuit abuse?
Like I said before, I’m not getting a dog into this fight. I just wanted to put the information out there, and I’m interested in hearing your thoughts. Comment and let me know.
