What Do You Hear About Health Care?
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Health on Tuesday, August 04, 2009 5:09 PM
This article about Congressman Joseph Cao of Louisiana’s decision to oppose the health care plan caught my eye.
“Being a Jesuit [he was once a seminarian and continues to adhere to Ignatian spirituality], I very much adhere to the notion of social justice,” Cao said.
“I do fully understand the need of providing everyone with access to health care, but to me personally, I cannot be privy to a law that will allow the potential of destroying thousands of innocent lives.”
He’s referring of course to the tax-payer funded abortion mandate included in the current versions of the bills.
Opponents have announced they’ll target him in the 2010 elections—which is fine by him.
“I know that voting against the health care bill will probably be the death of my political career,” Cao said, “but I have to live with myself, and I always reflect on the phrase of the New Testament, ‘How does it profit a man’s life to gain the world but to lose his soul.’”
Cao’s is an interesting story.
He came to the U.S. as a Vietnamese “boat person,” and he was elected just this past November as a Republican in an overwhelmingly black democratic district because of his incumbent opponent’s corruption.
Whatever your stance on healthcare, I’m sure we can all admire his integrity.
I’m curious, however, what you are hearing among your friends and neighbors about health care.
We know polls show declining support for the House and Senate plans, at least in their current incarnations.
But that could change during the Congressional recess, as both parties use their time at home among constituents to make their cases, pro and con.
Let’s take an informal “moment in time” survey—are people you talk to engaged by the issue? Do they support nationalized health care more or less now that specifics are known?
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