Over this past week, I have experienced an alternate reality. I was able to attend my opponent, Representative Lamar Smith's health care town hall in Schertz, Texas on August 24th. It was attended primarily by those opposed to the democratic health care reform proposal, an audience of about 500. This past Saturday, August 29th, I was a guest at the Real Choices for Change Health Care Forum with democratic Congressman Lloyd Doggett. This was attended heavily by those in favor of the democratic health care reform proposal, an audience of about 2000. The difference in these two presentations were like night and day.
Representative Doggett presented the elements of the bill, HR 3200, to explain fully what it means and how it would work. Representative Lamar Smith admitted that he had not read the democratic bill, HR 3200, although he had been given analysis. He was not able to answer specific questions about how the program would work. When asked questions with a premise that was patently false, instead of correcting these myths, he perpetuated them. There is real fear about this bill and it is based on misinformation.
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