Barbour Compares Health Reform to Jonestown Massacre

Jonestown, not Jonesboro.

Edits made.

Jonesboro, AR did have a massacre of sorts a decade ago when two young boys killed five of their classmates in a school shooting spree. That's beside the point here. You can debate the merits on whether insurance reform is good or bad, but if you have to go to the well of comparing reform to tragedies like Jonestown or the Holocaust, basically, the debater has no legs to stand on.

The analogy about Jim Jones is unfortunate, yet I must agree with the Governor (for the first time), when it comes to the fraudulent nature of this bill. First of all this is a misnomer, disguised as something dear to our hearts--health care reform; it is actually insurance care-less reform that craftily cloaks itself as being related to our national health deterioration crisis, a crisis that, by the way is not solved by the errant contemporary medical solutions these tax payer funded insurance monies of ours will underwrite, inappropriate medical solutions that end in horrible death, like that resulting from the hole they sawed into my mother's skull to remove a tumor caused by their prescribed Dilantin, or the death to my father (and my brother) by way of the operation on his neoplasmic condition of the pancrease that quickly spread the cancer as their data demonstrated that it would, and the death to my most recent client by way of the Kemotherapy used to remedy the two holes left in her chest where her breasts used to be; all of which come with data proving these treatments do not work to bring about a viable healthy citizenry. If our insurance money is to be used to improve the condition of the American citizen's health, then it should be used to support practitioners and therapies and healing plans that work to rid us of Chronic Degenerative Diseases--this is the real issue. People don't get sick because they don't have insurance, as we are so skillfully led to believe! Power to the Governor on this one!

My favorite editorial cartoonist makes Haley Barbour look like Mother Teresa.

http://comics.com/mike_lester/2009-02-18/

It seems to me a "practice in deception" to equate health insurance with an effective nature of viable cure for our health deterioration crisis and dilemma. I see a manipulation of statistics to make this misnomer of an idea behind this Bill fly, particularly, as I have stated, if our tax money is going to be handed over to those whose data demonstrate ineffectiveness to decide what operations and procedures will be used on our fellow citizens (do you think they will opt for the cheapest operations and/or procedures possible?); this is a scary prospect, especially in view of the rash of deaths related to medical treatment and practices in the news today--You know; Michael, Patrick, Isaac, Berney, Brittany, Heath and many many more.