...Erik Iverson took a swipe at Jim Hunt recently over Hunt's (accurate) claim Rehberg initially opposed CHIP ("extremist legislation," anyone?)...With that quick-and-dirty parenthetical, Stevens tries to dismiss Denny Rehberg's principled objections to Nancy Pelosi's version of the SCHIP (children's health insurance) renewal bill last summer. Rehberg presented a laundry list of problems he saw with the bill as it stood, with its outrageous $50 billion expansion in funding, its unprecedented addition of benefits and eligibility to relatively high-income adults, not to mention its proposed cuts to Medicare Advantage.
This, at a time when there were still 19,000 Montana children who hadn't yet enrolled in the existing SCHIP program here.
Rehberg concluded his op-ed with the suggestion that the motive for the expansion stemmed from an extremist agenda - presumably that of moving the country ever closer toward government-run health insurance and then universal health care.
But no, Stevens lifts the "extremist" reference out of context to take a cheap shot at a Congressman who took a reasoned position and eventually voted for a compromise bill.
Guess anything goes when his guy doesn't have a snowball's chance anyway.
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Serves you right for reading a vile little blog written by vile little boys.
One does not have to go far in search of duplicity in politics. Or blogging.
Let’s ask our ourselves a simple question: What is Dennis Rehberg’s vision for the future of healthcare for Montana’s children.
Not much there. And you can’t flip-flop your way out of that one.
Gimme break. Denny and his family have great healthcare. And we all know what the man who subdivided his grandparent's values above all.
You ask the question, then you answer it. Old trick.
I think Jackson's point is fair game. No takers, eh?
So you only care about insurance for children, and not their parents? I rather doubt that. This is about insurance for everyone, children being only the first stage. I don't care if Rehberg has a "vision" about that, unless it's to get rid of all the stupid mandates that help make private insurance so expensive. But he can't do that from Congress anyway.
Yes, Carole, all the Helen's in the world agree that the health care problem is caused by the government.
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