Kay Bailey Hutchison John Cornyn
Looks like we don’t have to worry about putting Kay out to pasture in 2012. She is leaving ahead of schedule. She has been promising to do this since before her last run in 2006. However this time it looks like she is serious since she and her husband sold their home in McLean Va around the first of October. They sold it for $175,000 less they the paid for it which is an indication again that she is serious this time. They already own a $2.7 million home in Preston Hollow–the area where the Mission Accomplished Master turned citizen, turned motivational speaker lives.
Although I realize it may not be saying much: Kay is a helluva lot smarter than her male Republican counterparts. At least, unlike John Cornyn, she had the good sense and common decency to vote for real representation for rape victims instead of trying to institute corporate kangaroo courts as a stand in for real courts.
Still I can’t help but wonder about these three young Texans who have died–all of whom are young enough to be Senator Hutchison’s (b.1943) children. What solution is she offering to help them? Perhaps Eric Cantor’s Charity Plan, or perhaps the tort reform plan that all research shows would save 1/2 of 1% of all health care costs. I wonder what Kay Bailey Hutchison would do differently if these were her children and she worked for Foleys instead of the Senate?
I wonder if she even thinks about Texans like this. One thing’s for certain–John Cornyn doesn’t.
John Cornyn is so out of touch that he said that the vast majority of the Texans that he represents VEHEMENTLY oppose the Public option. If Senator Cornyn really believes that 43.9 percent of Texans who are uninsured “vehemently” oppose a strong public option, then he is beyond the capability of participating in a rational discussion.
Rising unemployment led to 396,900 Texas adults losing their health insurance between January and August, of this year according to a new report from an advocacy group. AND WHAT ARE THESE TWO TWITS DOING ABOUT IT? They are helping Jim DeMint in exercising his obstructionist Waterloo fantasy for President Obama. [See a copy of the report here: http://www.familiesusa.org/assets/pdfs/one-two-punch.pdf]
REGARDLESS THE OUTCOME, OBAMA WILL BE JUST FINE. He, like Cornyn, Hutchison and all in Congress have 75% of their health care paid for by the U.S. Taxpayers. Senators like Hutchinson who are old enough for Medicate have a complete government plan. It’s the families of Texans like Rebecca, Hazel, and Frankie who have already met their Waterloos because of twits like Cornyn, Hutchison, DeMint, Cantor and other Republicans and Blue Dogs in the Senate don’t care about ordinary Americans.
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A FEW NAMES OF THE DEAD FROM TEXAS
Rebecca Jane Delgado
45, Lampasas, TX
Jasmine Nicole Bruns writes:
I found out my mother had cancer on August 23, 2007, my first day of classes at St. Edward???s University. We were told it was ovarian cancer in the final stage, but some treatments were still available so we started with the standard: chemotherapy. I missed several classes going to sit with her while she sat amongst the other cancer patients in the Oncology center of Scott & White. The first chemotherapy didn???t work, so we tried a different one that required a special port implant. Blue Cross/Blue Shield didn???t approve of the implant, so I used what was left of my financial aid to pay for it. That didn???t work either, so we started going to special Oncology hospitals looking for alternative treatments. We got a nutrition plan and some pills, but everything else was experimental. The treatment centers wanted upwards of $100,000 for some new treatments available but we didn???t have that kind of money. I remember the day she received her time frame: less than a year. I don???t know if those experimental treatments would have worked or not, but I sure would have liked to try. My mother died last November. By the way, Hospice and Blue Cross/Blue Shield managed her end-of-life care as well, denying certain comforts like daily catheter changes because they were deemed unnecessary. – - I lost my mother and I’m only 23 years old. I have no other family. I spend Christmas alone. I’d do anything to ensure that this never happens to anyone else again.
Hazel Clairette Hawkins
40 years old, Houston, TX
Willie Morris writes:
My sister was a strong woman. She work for foley’s dept. store. She had insurance, but when they found out she had cancer they up her policy were that she could not pay for it. The family tried to help her and we did what we could. But her treatment was limited and she died. you konw we can send people to war, and but there lifes on the line, then turn and hope for the best. Spend billions on going places we never been, trying to make the better. But we cant even take care of home. This is our home USA. lets take care of us, save our lifes. You know there a old saying, take care of home first then help other. tell the replu. that. Let cut out the parties and save our nations. Thank people like Congressman Alan Grayson for doing your job. P.S. Stay bless Congressman Alan Grayson
Frankie Nichols
41, Copeville, TX
Julie Nichols writes:
My husband Frankie didn’t have health insurance and rarely went to the doctor. He was a relatively young man without any health problems. He came down with what we thought was pnemonia in March 2006. – I got him to go to my doctor (I had coverage through my job, but we couldn’t afford the additional $500 monthly premium to include Frankie) in April 2006. After treating him for three weeks, we were out of pocket $2000. A CAT scan was done which determined he had lung cancer. The doctor advised us to go to the public county hospital because they were not equipped to provide treatment. The county we live in does not have a public hospital so I lied about our address in order to get him seen at Dallas’ Parkland. Parkland admitted him directly through the emergency room. He stayed in the hospital for two weeks while the doctors determined the origin of the cancer. He received one chemo treatment and was sent home. His next scheduled chemo treatment was May 25, 2006. He died on May 24,2006. I think that if he had access to treatment when he first became ill in March, 2006, prehaps he could have survived a bit longer. Prehaps not, but any additional time he could have spent with me and our kids would have been precious to us. Now I’m unemployed (but going to school) and uninsured. I worry how I will cope if I should get ill and need extreme medical treatment. I have 2 kids who depend on me and having access to regular healthcare would lift one of the worries from my mind.
