Sad and Pathetic but True

Private insurance companies are spending over $1 million DAILY to kill the public option by inventing phony citizen groups, and trying to scare the elderly with lies about euthanasia and pro-lifers with concerns about abortion; they know the only way to kill reform is to get people of good conscience fighting over misinformation, while they laugh all the way to the bank. They don't think very highly of our intelligence.

I have run into a story that is quite ironic, at least to me. A conservative activist in St. Louis was protesting the proposed healthcare reform bill. During the protest things got physical and this activist, Mr. Gladney, got a bit roughed up. He needed medical attention for injuries that were not life threatening. He ended up in a local emergency room to care for these injuries. It later became known that he went to the emergency room because he has no insurance and needed medical care.