I Love Cynics!

Today is Make-fun-of-contradictions Day. Some choice quotes from today’s News-Miner article on Lisa Murkowski’s Health Care Town Hall Meeting.

Rick Sikma of North Pole asked why the federal government thought it ought to be involved in health care in the first place.

“I don’t see that in the Constitution,” he said, applause drowning out the rest of his remarks.

“You’re going right to the core of the issue,” Murkowski responded. “Is this a right?”

“No,” people returned.

And then…

One North Pole woman, who has undergone chemotherapy twice, talked to her doctor about moving to Anchorage to be closer to her grandchildren, she said. Her doctor warned the 65-plus-year-old that she wouldn’t find a new doctor there willing to take on a new Medicare client.

“I think it is unconscionable people over 65 are not being … there is no option. Are not being given the right for medical care,” she said.