There are interviews with him on YouTube that were madee by some Ohio group named “ProgressOhio” that went looking for him afterward. It is very informative to watch them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfvnNzgQy7Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsHZnc9qcMQ
He is on Medicaid. He says that he went not for his own need for help, but to get health care for other people.
After watching him, I personally do not think the episode was staged. Of course the videos were filmed by Progressives, but he seems believable. Let me know what you think after you’ve seen them.
Shoot, I can never view anything on YouTube because of my setup here. Maybe the Parkinsons guy was legit, it’s just interesting that his medical issue is irrelevant to the debate. Nobody explored that. Trotting out your disability to invoke sympathy for a cause to which your disability is not relevant is fairly despicable. A parallel is that the Bible says courts should not favor the rich, but it also says they should not favor the poor. Surprised me when I read that, but it informs me once again that G_d’s ways are not our ways.