Irony can be a cast iron mother sometimes.
Remember back in November 2007 when some whack job took hostages at Hilary's Rochester, NH campaign office? He had to be nuts right? Some right wing lunatic, of course...
Here's the story in Foster's Daily Democrat
He's suing a local hospital and local mental health agency for negligence and denial of services. More below the fold....
The hostage-taking incident occurred in November 2007. In July of that year, the man, Lee Eisenberg, attempted suicide and then sought help from Frisbie Hospital in Rochester and Community Partners, a mental health agency. He was assessed, but then informed that since he had neither assets nor insurance he would not be treated.
That's an outline of the facts from the newspaper article, outlining the claims in the lawsuit. Your mileage may vary, we've only heard one side of the story, this matter is in litigation, the man is a convicted felon and mentally ill, yadda, yadda, yadda....
Let's for the moment take him at his word, not least because this was not filed pro se, but by counsel, and give him the benefit of the doubt.
Let's talk about the OVERALL cost-benefit to society of the public option? How much would we have spent provide rehab and counselling services to this man? How much did we spend calling out the SWAT teams instead???
And I cannot get over the irony that this was directed at Hillary Clinton's staffers....