Reply #16: I remember a "town hall" forum with Dick Armey [View All]

[KansDem]

Before I knew that the media was corrupt and these "town halls" were nothing more than an opportunity to use shills in "getting the GOP propaganda out."

One shill complained about his health-care insurance, about having to pay for services he would never use (forerunner to family planning exclusions? Argument for "individual health accounts?"). Anyway, Armey agrees with the shill and said something to the effect that there are services in his government-issued health insurance (which he said by law he's required to have) that he doesn't need and highlights maternity care. He said he and his wife are paying for something they won't use (kids are grown--want no more children or are past child-rearing stage). I thought "what the hell is insurance for?" To spread the cost of risk. If we all started paying for only what we needed, then expectant parents would be paying for other expectant parents. Cancer patients would be paying for other cancer patients, etc. I thought as I listened to Armey bitch and moan about his health insurance, something that 40+ million Americans don't have, why would younger members of Congress would want to be paying for services that are used more by older members like Armey and his wife? It became evident that Armey and the GOP were using these "town hall forums" to spread disinformation in order to bolster their agenda.

I began to realize then that the myth of the liberal media was just that--a myth.