Rob Bishop Supports Government Health Care, But Only In Utah
U.S. Representative Rob Bishop from Utah loves to give the impression that he is against government-funded health care.
“I will not vote for a health care plan that has a government commission in it,” he says. He criticizes the public option in Democratic health care reform proposals by saying, “it is more about the empowerment of government to make decisions for people, rather than empowering options for people so they can decide for themselves.”
The fact is that Representative Rob Bishop does support government-funded, government-run health care – but only if it takes place in his own congressional district back in Utah. Yesterday, just a few days after declaring how much he opposes the idea of the government paying for people’s health care, Rob Bishop acknowledged that he wrote two separate earmarks for government funded health care programs to insert into an appropriations bill, H.R. 3293.
Most of the money from these two earmarks goes to a state-run institution. The rest goes to a “community-owned” hospital. Community owned? Dear me – that’s socialized medicine! It sounds practically Communist!
Rob Bishop’s own support for government-run, government-funded health care cannot withstand the loose standards upon which Republican attacks against health care reform are founded. Congressman Bishop would do better to admit that he is opposed to health care reform merely for the purpose of partisan political maneuvering for power.
Congressman Bishop is betting that his constituents are too ignorant to notice his hypocrisy. Will that bet pay off?
