In his latest attempt to distract 6th District residents from his absolute refusal to do anything to meet their real needs, Republican Congressman Peter Roskam has launched the “Medi-Fraud Blog” at his Congressional website. Aside from using your tax dollars to in another misguided public relations scheme to shore up his image in the district, Roskam’s new blog has two main goals:
- To distract you from the real issues in the current national discussion as to how we can best insure the 45 million Americans who currently have no health coverage
- To scare you into believing that real health reform is just too dangerous an undertaking now with all the scary criminals seeking to defraud the government and that the 45 million Americans who don’t have access to the quality healthcare that Roskam’s family receives courtesy of the taxpayers will just have to wait … for oh say 10 to 20 years until we can get this fraud thing under control.
Peter Roskam’s press secretary, Dan, each day will tell you a story about some crooks who made a killing defrauding Medicare – until they got caught. It will be just like “COPS” on a blog except that everyone will be wearing their shirts.
Well at least this will give you something cool to read while you are performing your own appendectomy at the kitchen table. (This is may not be so bad an idea. My goodfriend Jon had our other friend Tony, who is a pretty good mechanic, sew up a nasty gash in his leg last summer because Jon didn’t have any insurance. It left kind of a big scar but there was no infection. So you can probably do it too – if Roskam doesn’t change his mind about health insurance for everyone).
Did I mention that Peter Roskam is working against universal coverage? Because that is the most important thing you need to know. Your Congressman, Peter Roskam, the one guy who’s job it is to work to get you a fair shake in Washington, is actively working to defeat any Democratic proposal to give insurance coverage to people here in Illinois who don’t presently have any. It would be too expensive, a misuse of your tax dollars.
And did I mention that Peter Roskam has an excellent health plan for himself and his family, paid for by your tax dollars? I wrote about it once before here. I guess that’s part of why it just doesn’t matter to Congressman Roskam whether we do anything about health reform this year. His family is already taken care of.
So, enjoy Peter’s blog. And be sure and post your comments about what a great Congressman Peter Roskam is because he’s fighting the commies in Washington who want to make sure everybody has healthcare whether they’re rich or a Congressman or not. (Be nice. Dan will be weeding out all the bad things people say). And good luck with that appendectomy.
