Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Senator Kay Hagan is an Embarrassment to North Carolina



Does anyone remember all the editorials, local and national, that mocked and impugned North Carolina’s General Assembly this past year?  All the Observers that infest this state gleefully called our governor and republican legislators “a national embarrassment.”  Well, Obamacare is a real national embarrassment, along with an NC senator who blindly voted for this monstrosity.  Senator Kay Hagan probably wished she had stayed home instead of holding a press conference.  Here is an excerpt from a Dana Milbank article:  

Hagan hosted a conference call for reporters Tuesday morning to discuss the problems with the health-care law’s rollout, and the Q&A session was so painful that the senator should qualify for trauma coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
 Fox News’s Jim Angle asked what she thought about the reports showing that only 50,000 Americans had enrolled in the health-care exchanges on HealthCare.gov.
 “You know,” she replied. “I know the — I believe this coming Friday, those numbers are going to be published and uh, you know, as soon as I see them, you know, obviously it’s, it’s m-much fewer than the administration expected.”
 A reporter from the Greensboro (N.C.) News & Record asked why Hagan, like President Obama, had told people that if they liked their health plans they’d be able to keep their health plans.
 There was a long pause before Hagan responded, then a deep intake of breath. “You know, Doug,” she responded, “the, um” — here she exhaled and paused again — “the way these, the — the regulations and the law, uh” — pause — “came forward recently, I think people were surprised that the, uh, the — the actual original plans would be, um, would be canceled.”
 Another North Carolina reporter asked Hagan what she is telling constituents whose premiums have doubled or whose plans have been canceled.
 Deep inhalation. “Well, a lot of people, I, I am encouraging everybody to go on the site, uh, uh, I — look through it, find out what the benefits are,” she began. She also said constituents could call her office, “and we will certainly, uh, do what we can to help those individuals and put them in contact, uh, with the right — with the right person, and, and, and help them.”
 And North Carolina’s General Assembly and governor is an embarrassment?  Think again.

No comments: