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The Irony of Re-electing Max Bacus
10/01/2009
I came across fairly shocking piece of information while researching a related topic.
Max Bacus, the Democratic senator who heads the Senate Finance Committee and recently voted against the public health care option, had a Republican opponent in the 2008 Montana senate race who not only supported a public option, but Universal Health Care for every man, woman and child in the United States.
That opponent was Bob Kelleher, a long time Democrat before he surprisingly won the 2008 Republican primary in Montana. On the "issues" section of Kelleher's campaign website, he posted:
According to the July 3rd edition of Missoulian, Kelleher had this to say about Bacus during the campaign
Max Bacus, the Democratic senator who heads the Senate Finance Committee and recently voted against the public health care option, had a Republican opponent in the 2008 Montana senate race who not only supported a public option, but Universal Health Care for every man, woman and child in the United States.
That opponent was Bob Kelleher, a long time Democrat before he surprisingly won the 2008 Republican primary in Montana. On the "issues" section of Kelleher's campaign website, he posted:
Bob spent 9 years in a monastery studying to become a Carmelite Priest before earning his law degree. Today, he believes that Health Care, including reasonably priced prescriptions should be available to everyone.Additionally, when Kelleher was asked, "Do you support health coverage for all children?", his website posted a simple and straight forward answer
Bob considers this to be a Christian ideal.
He supports health for everyone. He certainly wouldn't exclude children!As if these revelations aren't enough in light of Max Bacus' recent actions against government administrated health insurance, my reaction to this last tidbit nearly gave me whiplash from the amount of head-shaking it induced...
According to the July 3rd edition of Missoulian, Kelleher had this to say about Bacus during the campaign
Baucus is too beholden to health insurance companies - and the money they donate to political campaigns - to oversee any meaningful change to America's broken health care system.Bob Kelleher, Max Bacus' opponent in the 2008 Montana senate race, certainly knew what he was talking about.
"Private insurance companies have been, are and will be under the Baucus plan soaking up 25 percent of the public's money," he said. "Only 75 percent of each insurance dollar goes to a doctor or a hospital."
Kelleher, who supports a single-payer, government-funded health system as in Canada, also faulted Baucus for not having a more detailed plan to fix health care.
"If he hasn't figured it out in 30 years, what Baucus is saying is that there will be no health program as long as I'm chair of the Senate Finance Committee," Kelleher said. "Unless it's controlled by private insurance companies."
Comments
- 161 days agoI can believe it LOL. Anyone who's been in Congress long enough to make it a career is somebody's bitch, and has been for a long time. Now we see that Max Baucus is the insurance industry's whore.
- 158 days ago80% of Americans want health care change yet these prostitutes of the death care industry don't or won't listen to us when it is their reelection up for grabs and they are on the take of the death care industry.
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