Blackburn Has Lost All Southern Manners, Trading Them for Washington Grandstanding

In a recent House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health meeting, Blackburn cranked up her usual narcissistic grandstanding --- except she especially went off the rails this time, even for the Blackhearted One.  She was particularly rude -- downright, un-Southern rude and crude -- to a health insurance expert who had been dragged before the committee to testify.  I am speaking here of Wendell Potter, author of Deadly Spin and health insurance industry whistleblower, who happens to be a Tennessee native and University of Tennessee graduate. 

If you can stand to listen to Blackburn's screeching --- I had almost forgotten how painful it is to hear her fingernails against the blackboard voice --- below is the video of her shameful conduct.  Otherwise, read the link below from healthinsurance.org for truth and substance.

Blackburn used Mr. Potter as a Pinata, asking him questions but then quickly cutting him off so that she could continue her fraudulent tirade.  Of Blackburn's five minutes to have the floor, she ranted for all but 20 seconds -- 20 seconds worth of Mr. Potter trying to get out a response to Blackburn's bombastic whine. 

Blackburn claimed that health insurance premiums had been rising and it was ALL BECAUSE OF OBAMACARE!  Oh, no!  And she pretended to shuffle letters she had received from small businesses that were lamenting this issue.  Now, let's not get bogged down here by the fact that health insurance and medical costs have been moon-rocketing for decades, at a faster and more persistent clip than just about anything else, this side of volatile commodities. 

Graciously, showing his Southern background and manners, Mr. Potter wrote to Mrs. Blackburn and offered to investigate each one of Blackburn's alleged examples -- free of charge to taxpayers or Mrs. Blackburn's staff budget or the Subcommittee's funds.  Doesn't that sound like a good deal?

The point is that everyone has a unique story and example, as Mr. Potter explains in this report about Leslie Elder, who was diagnosed with breast cancer, which resulted in her husband's small business having to drop coverage for his employees after the insurance company jacked up premiums to an impossible amount because, well, they didn't really want to have to cover someone who actually was sick. 

Read this: http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2013/03/28/a-helping-hand-for-rep-marsha-blackburn/

By the way, don't be shocked:  Blackburn's two largest campaign donation categories by far recently have been "health professionals" and "pharmaceuticals/health products."  Link:  http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00003105

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