Isakson won’t take my health insurance advice
I met with an aide to Johnny Isakson yesterday afternoon to urge the Republican senator from Georgia to support health insurance reform. Though the young man I spoke with was courteous and smart, I left the meeting depressed and not very optimistic.
Now, I’m more depressed. Around the same time, as it turns out, Isakson was claiming to the Macon Lion’s Club that the discussion currently underway in Congress is a “classic debate between single-payer health care and private sector delivery.”
That’s about as true as the claim that the bill contains a provision for “death panels,” a canard that Isakson earlier this week called “nuts.” Read more
See Isakson on health care this week
U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson (left) with fellow Georgia Republican Saxby Chambliss (right) and your average constituent.
Some guy named Barack asked me to go by U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson’s office in Cobb County this week to let Isakson know what I think about health insurance reform. OK, well, actually it wasn’t Barack. It was somebody who work for him. But I’m going anyway.
This seems like the most effective counter-move to the ill-informed mobs that are trying to shutdown open discussion on health care by shouting over anyone who disagrees with them and by hanging congressmen in effigy.
I’m disgusted by the bullies, and was a little worried last week that the country’s best chance ever at health reform would go to waste if better informed people didn’t speak up. So I signed up at Barack Obama’s Organizing for America site. And last night, I got an e-mail suggesting that I stop by Isakson’s office at a preset time.
Here’s what I’m going to tell Isakson (or more likely, his staff member): Read more
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