Get a Widget for this title
RSS FeedWas Gov. Rell right to veto the universal health care bill?
Results so far:
| Yes | 26% | 20 votes | Total: 77 votes | |
| No | 74% | 57 votes |
Yes
Write now
Print
Invite a writer™
Add to Favorites
Was Governor Rell right to veto the Universal Health Care Bill? It is not that the Governor is right or wrong in vetoing the second Universal Health Care Bill in as many years that comes to her for signing but that she continues being consistent. If the Democrats in the House wanted an Obama-ready bill that Governor Rell would sign, they were more than likely certain that she would veto the bill.
Is that the way of politics as usual? One would have to have been an insider to truly know how the game is played once a politician is elected. There are promises made and promises unmade in a wink and nod. Those are the rules of the game. Politics: sometimes beneficial, more often delusional.
According to Ken Dixon, a stalwart reporter of Capitol politics for the Connecticut Post to his newspaper, staff writer Dixon reports that the governor signed 240 bills and vetoed 19. Dixon's story is really about the number of bills the governor vetoed which is more than she has previously vetoed but not as many as a another governor's number of vetoes, a whopping 173 one year. But a same page story by another staff writer shows the governor sent a message to appropriate deputies strongly suggesting that she wanted a boardwalk at Silver Sands State Park completed, thus demonstrating her steadfastness over projects she had promised to deliver on, although this action did not require legislative approval, as it had been previously approved.
Governor Rell vetoed another version of Universal Health Care, which had crawled through appropriate legislative committees and sent to her to sign. It was too costly then, she argued. And, besides, wasn't President Obama moving forward on a National Health Bill to accomplish what the bill before her proposed? She presciently saw the economy on the tipping point toward calamity with job losses and economic slowdown.
What is different this year is that the economy is in worse shape than anyone predicted, and with the State being in dire straits economically, without foreseeable turn around soon, she did the right thing. This is not a case of a narrow question before the court of public opinion; it is a generalized view of the trouble Connecticut like other states is in. Why add to our troubles? She correctly reasons.
As worthy a project as universal Connecticut health care is, it would have been difficult for a Republican or Democratic Governor under pressure from Insurance Companies in the State, to ramp up the bravado to sign on, no matter who wrote the bill. Hartford may no longer be the Insurance Capitol of the USA, but it is a formidable political force capable of launching a phalanx of lobbyists to reason with activist legislators and friends.
So true to herself, her party, and the oath of office, Governor Rell did the only decent thing she could do; surely, as Governor, she empathizes with the uninsured, under-insured, and formerly insured who are now barely able or unable to afford Cobra, the transitional plan, because there is no job that provides insurance to transition to. Thus, Governor Rell was right to veto the Universal Health Care Bill.
Learn more about this author, Gerard Coulombe.
Click here to send this author comments or questions.
No
Rell vetoes Sustinet legislation (HB 6600) and the CT Health Partnership bill (HB 6582).
The question is, was she right or was she wrong for the veto of both? My conclusion is, wrong.
The cost of doing business in Connecticut includes health care. Independent Contractors and Small Business Owners are the core in helping Connecticut rise above the current recession.
We hear reports of consumers purchasing clothing items at consignment stores to save money. Believe this or not, consignment store owners are small businesses. Every day homes are being foreclosed on where Realtors are the ones taking on the task to sell these homes. Realtors are Independent Contractors.
These are two examples of what our core is to Connecticut. The core is small businesses and independent contractors that need affordable health care coverage to keep their costs of doing business at an affordable rate, yet be able to offer an affordable medical plan to employees (which will decrease the unemployment rate) as well as having an affordable health care plan to cover the medical expenses of their families as well.
Every business owner, independent contractor, and every citizen who works for a small business, people who do not qualify or fit the age brackets for plans like AARP, Medicare, Huskies A or B, are also citizens that pay the taxes, liability insurance, fees, rental space expenses, just to keep a business running to provide for food for their families with clothes on their backs and a roof over their head.
These businesses are needed for all citizens in CT to be able to continue to purchase merchandise or have services rendered. Health Care Coverage at an affordable rate is not a choice; it is a necessity now more than ever.
Through Gov. Rell's vetoes, small business owners and independent contractors, the core of doing business in Connecticut, will soon be the core that once was. Before you know it, the core will leave.
Cutting costs is not the factor in her reason for these vetoes. To add the future cost for the State in regards to these bills is based on an estimated number. Through her vetoes she just increased the cost of doing business in CT all the more. Simple logic is a wedge that just came inbetween operating a business and the need for affordable health care.
My fear is that the small business owners and Independent Contractors will move out of the State of Connecticut because Health Care is needed. Affordable health care that is, for the small business owners and independent contractors that are the core for Connecticut to rise above the economical challenge right now.
Gov. Rell, in my opinion, is not seeing the relationship between the core and affordable health care plans in Connecticut. Where the core is a valuable asset to Connecticut's economy, without affordable health care plans, the core will eventually have to seek more inexpensive ways, possibly close or leave the state, to do business at an affordable capacity.
It is urged, if you are a small business owner and/or independent contractor that understands the need for affordable health care coverage, a coverage plan already in place, write to your local Senator, Representative, Congressman. Understand what these two house bills mentioned above are, understand how it will help your costs of doing business by having an affordable health care plan in Connecticut.
Learn more about this author, Maggie Griffin.
Click here to send this author comments or questions.
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
Difference of opinion? Debate now.
- Politics, News & Issues (Other)
- Is Bill O'Reilly's claim of "War on Christmas" just for ratings?
- Should the federal government give assistance to American auto makers?
- Were U.S. Senate Democrats correct in agreeing to seat Roland Burris this week?
- Should Califoria Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger be recalled?
- Is the Mexican Mafia a threat to the United States?
- Is your personal information really safe with governments and private businesses?
