Posted on 10/01/2013 3:16:39 PM PDT by lowbridge
Sen. Dick Durbin movingly described his sick child’s preexisting condition as a reason to support Obamacare last week, but the Illinois Democrat neglected to mention that his late daughter was easily covered by existing insurance, and that he used taxpayer money to reward the hospital that treated her.
Despite her preexisting condition, Christine Durbin, who suffered from a lifelong heart condition and died at age 40 in 2008, was eligible for coverage under existing laws in multiple states, including the senator’s state and the state she ultimately settled in.
Durbin also neglected to mention that he sent his daughter to one of the best children’s hospitals in the country, to which he earmarked millions of dollars from 2002-2010.
“I’ve had a situation in my family — a child — who had serious physical problems, who could not have qualified but for group health insurance available to me as a member of Congress,” Durbin said in response to a pointed question to Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.
“If I had gone on the open market to buy a policy I’m not sure I could have bought one for my family to cover my child,” said Durbin, who was first elected to Congress in 1982 when his Christine was fourteen.
In fact, Durbin wasn’t sure about buying a policy on the open market because he never had to, having been a state employee from 1969 to 1982 and a federal employee from 1982 to now. His daughter, Christine, who was born in 1968, never went without the cushy government benefits offered to government workers and their families.
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Birds of a feather...
“Add Carl Levin into that group. He of the peer over my glasses clan.”
Yup, so pretentious.
My guess is we have not seen anything yet. Historically this crowd has produced the likes of Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot.
Really. Another brain dead headline writer. It should be Dick Durban lied. That would be redundant though!
Yes, but your employer places the cost of your healtcare into the goods or services they provide. Consumers have a choice whether to purchase it, or not. We don’t have a choice in providing tax revenue to the government.....or seemingly any input as to how they spend it.
That is a false statement. There are no false facts. There are facts and there are falsehoods. Facts are true things. Things in the normal non quantum world cannot be false and true at the same time. People should not be hired as journalists, headline writers, and editors until they have mastered their ESL.
I’m shocked, I said shocked that an elected official would lie.
Oh wait, an elected official - never mind.
I want David Axelrod’s daughter on Obamacare.
And the baby-faced “Leaker” Leahy.
Good one.
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