Blanche Lincoln Tries To Avoid Talking About Health Care On Break

The Pine Bluff Commercial:

After casting a crucial vote on the health debate, U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln didn't return to the break she may have wanted when she came home to Arkansas.

The Democratic senator tried to focus on her strong point _ farming _ with a slate of events centered around her agriculture committee chairmanship. Surrounded by reporters before she opened her committee's first hearing in Arkansas, Lincoln seemed surprised that all but one question was about health care.

Read the whole story: The Pine Bluff Commercial

Comments

[love2lindy]

09:18 AM on 12/01/2009

Article link is bad.

[CommunistUtopia]

12:10 AM on 12/01/2009

Lincoln, If you vote with the Democrats in favor of an extremely unpopular bill, with an extremely unpopular POTUS, and extremely unpopular Congress, please send out your resume out.

Your Senatorial career will be over.

[rtlr1004]

02:53 PM on 11/30/2009

Arkansas Democrats: You MUST run a strong Democratic candidate against Lincoln. She is in the pockets of the insurance companies.

[roshni]

10:44 PM on 11/30/2009

Is there a possible primary dem we can trust and support in Arkansas? i would be willing to donate.

[CommunistUtopia]

12:12 AM on 12/01/2009

Why are you Democrats always trying to get something for nothing. Go out and get a job. If you have one, spend time to increase your skills rather than trying to take from those that work.

[Bronxdude]

02:15 PM on 11/30/2009

Uninsured Americans can use hospital emergency rooms to receive quality healthcare. That’s the republican solution for granting healthcare access to 50 million uninsured Americans. The other republican solution is to privatize Medicare, which, according to the CBO, would generate an additional $3 trillion in annual revenue for the insurance cartel. The Republican Party – the quintessential party of lies, exaggerations and distortions – is aware that any costs associated with uninsured Americans using the emergency room will be passed on and absorbed by private insurance subscribers, not insurance or healthcare providers. Privatizing Medicare and encouraging uninsured Americans to continue using hospital emergency rooms increases the profit margin for insurers and healthcare providers. Every year, insured Americans pay on average an additional $834 in premiums to cover uninsured Americans. Universal coverage would end this practice and reduce the cost of premiums and healthcare coverage for every American. America spends 17% of GNP on healthcare, while France, Canada and Britain, respectively, spend 10%. Yet America ranks 50th among industrialized nations in life expectancy (France, Canada, Spain and Britain rank in the top 20). Healthcare in America is a $2 trillion-a-year industry, but a cost/benefit analysis would appear to indicate that there is no correlation between the amount of money spent and improved outcome, i.e., spending more does not produce better outcome. Obviously, fixing the delivery system is not what republicans want; for republicans, throwing more money at the problem is the only solution.

[love2lindy]

09:17 AM on 12/01/2009

Emergency rooms do not want to treat uninsured people. They will send most people away unless they are having a true emergency. If not, and a person is treated, it is (1) the most expensive treatment option and (2) billed to the individual. By law, all "reasonable efforts" must be made to recoup the costs before they are absorbed by the hospital and paid by taxpayers via emergency funds. If an individual's hospital bills go unpaid, they are sent to collection agencies and the individual's credit is ruined if they are not able to pay.

[ljc]

01:18 PM on 11/30/2009

She is a fraud and a phoney. I watched the Senate Finance Committee Markup on cspan. Almost every time an amendment came up to vote, she either passed or disappeared out of the room. Then at the end, after everyone else had voted, she came back in when her vote was meaningless as the decider. She has no guts or scruples. I would be shocked if she has not already secured a job as a lobbyist or other high level position with the insurance industry.

[fredamae]

01:41 PM on 11/30/2009

Politicians like this are an Embarrassment to U.S. Democracy. Frauds, really and Americans are the Victims of their Greed.

[Teritt]

01:03 PM on 11/30/2009

How many farm workers are uninsured?
But I guess they don't contribute as much to her campaign as Walmart.

[mi]

12:47 PM on 11/30/2009

Hope voters in Arkansas wake up.

[christopherflynn]

01:23 PM on 11/30/2009

Hope everyone in Arkansa wakes up...

[Teritt]

04:05 PM on 11/30/2009

I keep hoping Minnesota wakes up as well.

[Manhattanite]

12:37 PM on 11/30/2009

" (...) Lincoln seemed surprised that all but one question was about health care."

She is either comatose or a zombie. Kick her out, Arkansans.

[tompoe]

01:01 PM on 11/30/2009

400,000 uninsured Arkansas voters want to know. And this miserable excuse for a human is surprised?

[mphalen]

12:25 PM on 11/30/2009

If she doesn't vote for a strong public option she is done.

[jeremiahos]

06:05 PM on 11/30/2009

She's finished, period.

[claudiam]

12:08 PM on 11/30/2009

Well, I guess. She should be embarrassed. Her state is one of the poorest in our nation and she should care more about getting her poor constituents health care and health care that all can afford. claudiatucsonaz

[fredamae]

11:42 AM on 11/30/2009

Just like All good Republican Democrats; Buries Head In Sand To Hide From Reality. Lincoln = Permanent State of Denial Coupled With A Permanent State of Support For The Industrial Insurance Complex.

[2centsplain]

11:33 AM on 11/30/2009

Good choice for the Senator. This way she won't be confused with facts.

[Thabit]

11:30 AM on 11/30/2009

The Pine Bluff Comercial link now shows they deleted the article , something holding her feet to the fire on Healthcare reform and poof its gone

[Free2BeMe]

01:54 PM on 11/30/2009

I tried it too and couldn''t get the article. Check on who owns the publication?

[Okieborn]

11:14 AM on 11/30/2009

He** no she doesn't have time to talk about healthcare, she is much to busy counting her overflowing coffers

[way2muchsense]

11:09 AM on 11/30/2009

Gee, you think this might cause her to vote with her constituents instead of the health insurance industry? I guess I can hope for anything I want.