Republican House Whip Eric Cantor Discusses Health Care Reform On MSNBC's "Morning Joe"

Looks as if the Republican Party read my little post entitled, "10 Lessons from Jack Kemp on rebuilding the G.O.P.", because this morning U.S. House Rep. Eric Cantor (VA) was on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" discussing Health Care Reform.

Check out what he said. Did any of it make sense? At least he was a better speaker than Bobby Jindal.

However.....

Perhaps my ears deceived me, (I hope not) but did Cantor say that he and his G.O.P. cohorts don't need to listen to their Constituents??

Big Mistake. Big Mistake. Listening to American Voters is why President Obama is currently seated in the Oval office as opposed to Senator John McCain.

In the words of President Obama, "Stop listening to Rush Limbaugh".

If the G.O.P. continues listening to Rush Limbaugh, pretty soon there won't be a Republican Party left for the Democrats to contend with.

As a Politician choosing NOT to listen to your Constituents is a HUGE mistake!

Cantor: "First of all, let me just go in here and address the assumption here in the discussion. We also have a health care system that, in reality, if you are sick anywhere in this world and you can afford it, you can come here for your care because we do have access to the best care, but you're right, there are too many people who don't have access to that care, so what we need to do is to be able to address -- number one -- the coverage and access to insurance, and number two, to be able to demonstrate that we can bring down cost. Now this notion that we are somehow going to allow the government to take over providing the care because that's going to address the cost factor, is just a false start. You can't assume that this place in Washington is going to do things efficiently. What we do know is that we need to promote the ability for people to -- number one -- if they lose their job, they don't necessarily lose their health care -- number two -- if they are sick and they have a pre-existing condition, we must allow for them to access affordable coverage, because that's a huge issue right now, how people can access coverage when they are sick, and that has to do with expanding the risk pools, giving people the ability to access much more affordable coverage. Right now, we are so tied to a third-party payer system that, you know, people are at a whim cut off from access to care. so we've got to go back to centering our focus on patient/doctor relationships."




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