As a member of the two U.S. Senate committees tasked with crafting health reform bills, Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., has played the critic more than the architect, objecting noisily on cost and other grounds. That’s probably why he hasn’t been a go-to guy for reform champion and former Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, the Democrat now leading President Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services. “Even though we know each other very well, she knows how I feel about how health reform, so she’s trying to go where she can get votes,” Roberts told the Kansas Health Institute News Service. “I would welcome — if she had the time — at least an hour discussion to go over these facts (about health reform) with the secretary. I can’t imagine if she were still in her previous role that she wouldn’t be jumping up and down about all this.” Perhaps, but Gov. Mark Parkinson has strongly advocated reform.
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Mr. Roberts, you have already made it clear you oppose any and all efforts of the Obama administration to provide affordable health care to Kansans.
Why on Earth should anyone waste their time on you?
No one knows what is or is not in the health care bills. And they keep changing them. Dems would love to have a blank check and have no one caring what was in the bill, or how much it costs. Fortunately, that’s not the way things work. Whomever is responsible for the Senate’s ability to filibuster was brilliant, and has saved our country from doing a lot of poorly thought out things.
Someone has to be a good steward of the taxpayer’s money. O’BAMA is spending like a wildman driving us deeper and deeper in never-ending spiraling debt.
Thanks Senator Roberts for being mindful and not the flavor of the day hypo-crat.
Well this cannot be.
Republicans are just the party of no.
They don’t have a plan.
No ideas.
So this thread cannot exist.
(darned if you do and darned if you don’t)
A Reuters Thompson report indicates that there is 500 – 800 billion dollars of waste annually in the current medical delivery system.
A good steward of the taxpayer’s money would be addressing that in a meaningful way, as the Democrats are.
“I can’t imagine if she were still in her previous role that she wouldn’t be jumping up and down about all this.”
Roberts pretends to speak for Sebelius? I always assumed the guy was an arrogant pri*k, and this pretty much confirms it.
Roberts supports:
– bigger cash payments from the federal treasury for farm subsidies,
– the expansion of Medicare even though it’s the original socialized medicine,
– the Social Security program at every opportunity,
even though they are in direct opposition to the philosophy of limited government and reduced federal spending.
The overriding idea in Kansas is that MY government payments are good things. Expanding MY government programs to make them bigger is a good thing. And Kansans make sure they vote for people who clearly understand that bigger government is bad if it strays away from where it should be bigger.
We just want our programs and we’re not going to be concerned where the welfare of others is concerned.
Medicare is good but other government health care programs are bad!
Our farm subsidies are good investments of taxpayer dollars, not like the welfare programs of other states!
The federal spending that is good will benefit Kansas! Otherwise, it’s a waste of taxpayer dollars, or welfare, or socialism, or…
And that’s why Kansas and Roberts are so irrelevant in the national debate.
And that’s why Kansas and Roberts are so irrelevant in the national debate.
Well, tell your Kansas Democratic Senator to…
Oh wait – nevermind…
(chortles)
While Sebelius was fighting to provide medical care for more vulnerable Kansas children and families, Roberts was fighting against expansion of the SCHIP program.
Roberts doesn’t have anyone’s ear, he’s a marginalized ks. repub.
Children don’t vote! Farmers vote, senior citizens vote.
Some states have Senators who are patriots and work for America.
Not Kansas!
Poor Robetts, Sebelius can’t find the time to explain it to him. Guess he’ll have to ask his lobbyist advisors.
Time for another phantom original: “Roberts ,Brownback, Tiahrt, and Moran will vote against the health care bill not because they are advocates of business, as usual; but, because they are advocates of, business as usual!”
Not to fear, Roberts still has bush’s ear (it’s between his lips as he softly blows in it).
Roberts doesn’t even have his own ear. Try sending him a letter or e-mail and you’ll get back the same damn form letter he uses on his constituents for all issues. The guy’s completely deaf to anyone who didn’t make a recent and huge contribution to his war chest.