Meet Jerry Call. He believes that the US government should take over your health care – with an emphasis on the ‘take over’ part.
There’s nothing gentle about Jerry. He recently spent 30 hours in a Washington, DC jail after he and several other equally well-mannered people disrupted a hearing before the US Senate Finance Committee:
Eight advocates of government-run health care disrupted a Senate hearing Tuesday on health-care coverage, complaining that their viewpoint was shut out of Senate debate on the issue.
One-by-one, the eight people stood up just before a Senate Finance Committee hearing and spoke in favor of so-called “single-payer” health care – a system by which the government would provide health insurance for everyone and essentially supplant the private insurance market. The Finance hearing is a “roundtable” in which 15 witnesses are set to testify on health care coverage.
“You have 15 seats at the table and not one for single-payer,” said one man, before being escorted from the committee by U.S. Capitol Police.
The single-payer supporters, dressed in business attire, were able to interrupt the hearing by spreading throughout the hearing room and staggering their protest speeches. Just as one protestor was taken out of the room by police, another would stand up and start talking.
Jerry is an unpleasant and determined little man – determined to take over your health care whether you like it or not. And when unions like SEIU and organizations like ACORN called for demonstrations in favor of dictatorial health care on May 30, Jerry was only too happy to help organize a soiree in Augusta, Maine.
But when Jerry was asked a few questions about who would decide who got care once the government took over, well, he wasn’t too pleased.
I think Jerry would be a great case manager, don’t you? He and his buddies can decided whether your life is really in danger – or whether you only need a knee replacement.
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