ANOTHER HEALTH CARE FAIRY TALE

Conservatives love to lie about how great private sector health care is and regale us with tales that are clearly false. Here's a recent example from one of the GOP's rising stars.

Freedom Can't Be Rationed

By Rep. Mike Pence from the June 2009 issue
The American Spectator

Here’s how one Michigan mother expressed her exasperation with the government-run Medicaid program: “You feel so helpless thinking, something’s wrong with this child and I can’t even get her into a doctor….When we had real insurance, we would call and come in at the drop of a hat.”

Aside from the Emergency Room, I've never been able to come in "at the drop of a hat" unless someone cancelled an appointment.