Morris is forever trying to find cover and excuses for the republican party and once again for Louisiana's Senator Bill Cassidy. In a opinion column dated 6/2/17 of the Times Picayune Morris covers Cassidy's town hall meeting in Covington to talk about health care with the people he represents. The gist of Morris column is that Cassidy is not afraid to hold town hall meetings on the subject matter.
All who follow the news know that the republicans in congress have been catching flak all over the country at their town hall meetings concerning health care because of their lies about the subject matter. Some republicans have cancelled their town hall meetings and some have used the telephone style meetings to dodge face to face contact with their supporters.
Like Cassidy's town hall in Metairie in February that failed to have enough seating and left people out side the hall, so did his meeting in Covington. Of course Cassidy knew those town halls concerning health care were drawing large crowds all over the country and in Louisiana but still failed to find a hall that was large enough to hold the people who were willing to make their voices known. Surely a U.S. Senator has the means to provide adequate space for his own meetings with the people he represents.
The opinion column was void of any position that Cassidy has on health care and repeal and replacing the ACA. It was mostly a rehash of his earlier column of Cassidy's town hall in Metairie. Although a Doctor, Cassidy fits the republican mold on health car and keeps repeating the same lie. They do not have a workable plan to repeal and replace the ACA and that was confirmed by the CBO report on the House passed AHCA.
Cassidy and his Senate colleges still do not have a plan to vote on and have held no public hearings on health care to obtain comments by the public and other interested in the subject matter. They are just trying to convince 50 republican senators to vote for any plan with concessions. This writer wonders if Cassidy told his supports at the town hall that his position on "pre existing conditions" was to turn that over to the states to implement. Ohio's republican governor John Kasich said that idea was laughable and would not work. Kasich implemented the ACA in his state under the Medicaid provisions that he said has insured over 800,000 people.
If Cassidy and the republican party were serious about health care they would work to improve the ACA and make it better. That would be the thing to do and provide the country with a workable and sound health care system. Stop the lies of the last seven years that the republican party has a ready and workable plan
And let the people never forget that it was the republicans in congress that urged republican governors not to implement health care exchanges in their states because they wanted the ACA to fail..
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
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