Posted on 11/08/2009 5:26:35 AM PST by tobyhill
Tonight, Congressman Anh “Joseph” Cao (LA-2) voted in favor of the comprehensive health reform bill, H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act.
Of his vote, Cao said: “Tonight, I voted to keep taxpayer dollars from funding abortion and to deliver access to affordable health care to the people of Louisiana.
Cao said: “I read the versions of the House [health reform] bill. I listened to the countless stories of Orleans and Jefferson Parish citizens whose health care costs are exploding – if they are able to obtain health care at all. Louisianans needs real options for primary care, for mental health care, and for expanded health care for seniors and children.
The bill passed the House at a 220-215 vote.
Cao said: “Today, I obtained a commitment from President Obama that he and I will work together to address the critical health care issues of Louisiana including the FMAP crisis and community disaster loan forgiveness, as well as issues related to Charity and Methodist Hospitals. And, I call on my constituents to support me as I work with him on these issues.
Cao said: “I have always said that I would put aside partisan wrangling to do the business of the people. My vote tonight was based on my priority of doing what is best for my constituents.
(Excerpt) Read more at josephcao.house.gov ...
When his constituents actually see what he voted for...buh-bye.
Has there ever been an “elective abortion” where a doctor could not find a medical or emotional need for it? Ahn Cao doesn’t understand something about the American economy. What could it be.
I hear he sold out because Obama promised to visit his state.
Is this guy for real? LA needs to bar him from the state period beginning with this holiday season.
The GOP shouldn’t wait for his constituents, they should force him out now. This idiot just voted to bankrupt America.
Where is it written in the bill that illegals won't be illegible for health insurance?
'Step into my parlor,' said the spider to the fly.
Nope. They never got to that little part because this whole crap is being rushed down our throats.
And the little RINO RAT BASTARD won’t let you send him a email on his US government website, that I PAY FOR. Because I don’t live in his district. Any conservative willing to run against him, I will make a donation to your campaign.
Just put his office zip code and address.
He was pert of the Bunch that declared war on America.
Try calling him Monday(800-828-0498). Don’t bother now, his box is full. LOL
I just have one question for Cao. How much did Pelousi promise you for your vote???
Cao’s father was imprisoned in a North Vietnamese reeducation camp. After all they went through in Vietnam, you’d think the family would hate socialism. Or maybe the reeducation worked on the whole family.
Agree— if the GOP got rid of the RINO maybe more of us could support them again.
“When his constituents actually see what he voted for...buh-bye.”
Sorry, you’re very wrong. He replaced Cold Cash Jefferson in a predominately Black district. He has the misguided belief that this will gain him reelection. He is toast on the Black preachers grill and he has to know it.
What I can’t believe is that someone whose family escaped Communism would help vote it into being in this country.
Another Lawyer that has no moral beliefs.
Just use a zip code in his district and note LA and your email will go through.
Who cares about this piece of shit and what his parents went through? Send this disgusting twerp back to Vietnam. F&%# him and his whole family.
They have 280 seats drop the SOB and let them have 281 they got what they want
Anh Cao... born Ho Chin Minh City, Vietnam 1967
It might be interesting the number of formative years he spent in Vietnam and exactly where in Vietnam.
Form first hand experience in Eastern Europe, the Stans and Russia... communists never change base ideology, just their hats and quicker than any camellian. Child predators and communists never... never change. Communists just s*r*w the entire population.
Deja Vu (Op-Ed on Healthcare)
Igor Birman ^ | Nov. 7, 2009 | Igor Birman
Posted on November 7, 2009 6:17:14 PM GMT-05:00 by calif_reaganite
Fifteen years ago, my family and I arrived in the United States, having fought for two decades to escape the dictatorship of the Soviet Union. We left behind a tyrannical system, determined to control every aspect of its subjects’ lives. Now, the same forces appear to be at the forefront of our national debate on health care.
At the heart of this debate lies a very simple question: will we preserve the freedom of every individual to determine his or her best interests, or will government seize for itself control over the health care of every American? Having experienced and finally escaped from the latter, it is not difficult to foresee its effects.
I saw hospitals devoid of basic supplies, anesthesia treated as a luxury item and hot water more difficult to obtain than attention from an orderly. A severe shortage of medications persisted, to the point where patients were refused hospitalization if they could not procure their own drugs.
It was commonplace for an elderly person to call an ambulance and be told that he was simply too old and no help would be coming. The state decided who lived and who died. This was real. This was government-run health care as I knew it.
There was another world I wasn’t privileged to see. In the true spirit of socialism, the Soviet State chose not to consign high-ranking party members, bureaucrats, military officers and other worthy individuals to the public system.
Instead, it created a separate world of plentiful doctors and first-rate hospitals, with such luxuries as uninterrupted electricity and modern x-ray machines to which entry for the rest of us was closed at gunpoint.
Misery is par for the course when government dictates winners and losers. It doesn’t stop at international borders – it is the product of tyranny, where the ability to make choices about something as intimate as health care is taken by the government and rationed in accordance to its whims. As the public option becomes reality and one day turns into a public obligation, the misery I encountered threatens a frightening déjà vu.
Ultimately, the fight comes down to a matter deeper than access to health care. This is a debate over what defines us as a country and as Americans. What possessed my parents to risk everything, to put in question their own and their children’s future, to be subjected to KGB surveillance and to write appeals to Gorbachev, was a set of principles that have defined this country for over two centuries.
These principles simply dictate that the purpose of government is to protect the people’s right to decide what is in their best interests and to live according to those decisions. They are fundamentally incompatible with government control. Should we abandon them, health care will become but a building block of a system where no decision is small enough to escape the grasp of government.
Churchill observed that, “the further back you can look, the further forward you are likely to see.” We know how the siren song of government takeover ends. History has written it for us in plain form. Inevitably, no matter where it takes place in the world and no matter which century, it ends in dismal failure. I saw it.
My parents risked their lives and livelihood to let their children live in freedom’s only refuge in the world. Millions have done so before them. Perhaps it’s time all of us rise to the challenge and secure freedom for our posterity.
IGOR BIRMAN serves as Chief of Staff to Representative Tom McClintock (R-CA).
National halth care was the Nazi’s first step in getting complete control of the German people in the thirties.
I am from the Baton Rouge area and do not agree with this representative. But I understand where he is coming from. New Orleans and the surrounding area may not make it as a viable metropolis. in truth it is the dems’ fault. Truly the area is a basket case. He is trying to get as much as he can while he can. He knows he does not stand a chance to get re-elected.
You voted to prove you are a retard.
“It might be interesting the number of formative years he spent in Vietnam and exactly where in Vietnam.”
I don’t know much about him or his family.
We have a lot of Techs in our lab that were born in Vietnam and grew up here. They are very anti-Communist and very American. I will see what they have to say Monday.
I think Cao is just another opportunist lawyer and will do anything to stay in office. He is delusional. The next election the “true racists” in this country will replace him with a Black.
Damage control
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