Gwen Moore: Health Care Meeting, August 11

Gwen Moore has scheduled an "informational session on health care reform."

I guess she didn't get the memo that the focus is on health insurance reform now.

Anyway, Moore will be holding a meeting.

Details, from Moore's website:

Constituents of Wisconsin’s 4th Congressional District are invited to attend:

WHO: Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Wisc.
WHAT: Informational session on health care reform
WHEN: Tuesday, August 11, 2009, 4-6 p.m.., CST
WHERE: North Division High School, Milwaukee, WI

MILWAUKEE – Congresswoman Gwen Moore (D-Wisc.) will Tuesday hold an informational session to hear from her constituents on the proposed health care reform legislation that the House of Representatives will likely consider in September.

A representative from the University of Wisconsin is expected to be on hand to give a non-partisan, informational presentation on the bill’s specifics.

Congresswoman Moore will also answer questions that constituents have submitted online on health care reform. Those who plan to attend need to submit their questions online prior to the event. Please e-mail your questions to moorehealthevent@mail.house.gov.

Everything about this event is being carefully controlled.

Having a representative from Madison on hand to give a "nonpartisan" presentation is such a joke.

Moore can sit back and let the UW representative deliver the bill's Leftist selling points. She can distance herself that way and be a bit more of an observer. She can listen and nod her head a lot.

There is no way that any informational session hosted by Moore will be nonpartisan by virtue of the fact that she is fiercely partisan.

Another thing--

Moore's district stretches across nearly all of Milwaukee County. If this is the only "informational session" that she hosts, it's unlikely that members representing all of her diverse constituency will be able to attend. I think she should have picked a more central location, one that more of her constituents know. Perhaps somewhere Downtown would be better.

Ideally, she should have more than one meeting to accommodate her constituents, particularly the elderly.

The effort to control the session is most evident in the fact that questions must be submitted prior to the event.

That means they will be handpicked, allowing Moore to have answers prepared ahead of time. It also allows her to avoid any issues she doesn't wish to discuss.

The plan is obviously meant to prevent any surprises or awkward moments.

In short, this event is not really an open public meeting. It's staged, with preselected questions and canned answers.

Even though all attempts have been made to control what happens at this event, that doesn't guarantee how it will play out.

I think much of the frustration boiling over at town hall meetings across the country stems from the Democrats' refusal to listen to the people they serve.

Matters have certainly been made worse by the Democrats' smear campaign to characterize dissenters as "angry mobs" and paid to protest.

Any anger is symptomatic of the fallout from Obama's many broken promises, his deceit, his divisiveness, and his arrogance.

There's a real sense of concern and even fear. That's understandable given that a government-run health care system will touch the lives of all Americans in some way.

People understand the consequences of government-run health care. They must relinquish their freedom to determine the course of their health care with their doctors, unless they happen to be a member of Congress, like Moore.

Care will be rationed and services denied under a government-run system. Life and death decisions will be put in the hands of government bureaucrats. Of course, that's frightening. Of course, emotions run high.

Americans have realized that Obama cannot keep his promises. He cannot honestly say that if you are satisfied with your health plan and your doctor, then you can keep your current coverage, no changes. That's not true.

Of course, people are worried.

It bothers me that Moore is picking the questions she wishes to address. That's not "hearing from her constituents." That's prepackaging an event.

It doesn't appear that Moore really wants to listen.