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Gregoire and Rossi Mix It Up Again

By The Country Doc
Thu Oct 02, 2008 at 01:56:04 PM PST
Section: Diary Topic: Election news/info

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While most focus on the vice presidential debate tonight, last night Governor Gregoire met with repeat challenger Dino Rossi at the Capitol Theater in Yakima in a debate that focused on the economy. Rossi blamed Gregoire for the state deficit, while Gregoire again argued that it reflects national economic woes resulting from Bush's economic policy.

While snippets of the debate are somewhat sparse, one quote of note on health care is in Leah Beth Ward's coverage for the Yakima Herald-Republic:

"Gregoire defended her administration's expansion of children's health care and attacked the Republican's position that the state requires too much coverage, such as cancer screenings.

'Do you want to get rid of mammograms? Do you get rid of prostate screenings? Deregulation didn't work on Wall Street and deregulation of health care in the state of Washington would be a disaster,' she said.

Rossi countered that health-care consumers should have market choices.

'We need to have options. We have the worst options in terms of health care this side of the Mississippi. You have a bureaucrat in Olympia deciding for you what you want instead of letting you decide for yourself.'"

Isn't Rossi really right on this? After all, why mandate insurance companies cover evidence based preventive care that has been shown to save lives such as mammograms? Isn't it really far more important that Washingtonians have coverage options like Rossi and his environmental allergist or his wife and her chiropractor?

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Gregoire and Rossi Mix It Up Again | 1 comment (1 topical)

Rossi does not appear to speak about health care

from his own personal experience. What he says and the ways he says it suggests that he personally has never had to cope with the problem of affordable health care.

Moreover, he has the experience of a legislator but again his talk does not suggest any degree of empathy with the problems of health coverage.

As I work in the South Bend DSHS office and as my duties include health care eligibility for individuals and families, I'm certain that I'm not far behind your own knowledge regarding coverage problems at life's most basic and economic level.

... and that what Dino thinks he knows is merely at the political-theory and rhetorical level.

It becomes apparent to me that Dino's knowledge about health care is purely theoretical and intellectual.

Arthur
You sure you ain't staking too much on yer theories? Not enough common sense?

by Arthur Ruger on Fri Oct 03, 2008 at 06:30:42 AM PST

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