The Latest Republican Talking Point

I dare you to find an audio clip where ANY Republican in the House or Senate in the past year has said, We want to get affordable "health care" for The People.

One of the Republican talking points has gone largely unnoticed and though seemingly benign it's largely endemic of the issue from a Republican standpoint. The Democrats have said that everyone deserves high quality "health care". The Republicans have never said that. Instead they use different terminology (view video clips).





I have called Mr. Boehner's office at 202.225.6205 (I suggest you do the same) and called him out on it and I sent an email to his press secretary(below) that which they have refused to answer. I called again today and they refused to take my call. When someone did have a conversation with me and I asked, "When Mr. Boehner speaks on health care why can't he say health care instead of health insurance"? The receptionist said, "He doesn't have time for that". I then asked, "You're saying, he doesn't have time to help The People instead of corporations"? I then said, "I dare him to use the phrase health care instead of health insurance".

The conversation went on and on that Mr. Boehner wanted to help The People by getting them health insurance but since insurance companies have a major conflict of interest, that means No Health Care. The Republicans are going to introduce measures to offer tax cuts for health care which is the most idiotic way to get it to most of The People.

If one doesn't make enough money for a tax break and can't afford to get insurance then they will not have any. We've already done the paperwork on this. We will have fewer people covered if health insurance is offered this way and it will bankrupt government because all those rich who could afford insurance will get a tax cut. When that happens, taxes will be raised on everyone to cover it. This is just another way the Republicans can get the poor to subsidize the rich.

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Mr. Steel,

I write independently and would like to ask a couple of questions
about the interview with John Boehner from Sunday's State of the
Union.

During the interview Congressman Boehner stated more than once that
the people should have "access" to "high quality, affordable
health insurance". This would not be a polar opposite to what the
Democrats want but it would seem that the focus on what is most
important for each of the parties seems to be different. When the
Democratic Party speaks of health care they state that everyone should
have, "high quality, affordable health care".

1) Does Minority Leader Boehner have any thoughts on the fact that if
the Republican Party focuses on "health insurance" instead of "health
care" in their wording that they could appear to have a conflict of
interest in trying to get affordable health care for all?

2) In other words, doesn't Mr. Boehner fear the possibility that the
Republicans could again be tied to helping insurance conglomerates
instead of working to help the people?

3) Did the Republican Party purposefully word their public statements
to focus more on the term "health insurance" instead of "health care"?

Thank you so very much for your time, Sir. I hope to hear from you very soon.

Peter Lawrence

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Well, as he did on State of the Union, Mr. Boehner again, on Good Morning America, stated the same thing. He wants to make sure everyone can have "access" to "high quality health insurance". This term is quite insidious in its creation with two parts that define those two different Republican talking points.

The People are NOT idiots... We understand what that means. It means we can have "access" to health insurance but can't have it if we can't afford it. And it means "health insurance" doesn't necessarily mean access to "health care" since the insurance companies have a conflict of interest between their stockholders and providing coverage and would prefer denying us coverage to improve stock values.

Mr. Boehner's words, which represent the Republican Party, are more of the same - Giving billions to corporations at the expense of The People who cannot afford it.