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5 Questions for AG Bill McCollum's 83rd press conference on Health Care Reform

Mar 23, 2010

By Dan

1.    Florida has nearly 4 million residents who are uninsured including 800,000 children (the second highest percentage in the nation). As you are running for Governor, what do you propose to do to address this crisis since you believe the reform passed by the Congress is unconstitutional?

2.    If you believe it is unconstitutional to require buy-in for health insurance, do you likewise believe that the payroll tax that Americans are required to pay for Medicare so that they have insurance when they are older is also unconstitutional?

3.    Florida has pill mills run amok, ponzi schemes preying on our most vulnerable seniors, child predators, and one of the nation’s worst violent crime rates. Do you really have so many extra resources and so little to do that you can afford to dedicate personnel to what some have called a rank political stunt?

4.    When this bill is signed into law, insurance companies will no longer be able to deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions. Are you really willing to go to court to uphold insurance companies' right to deny care and drop coverage?’”

5.    You have had half a dozen press conferences and announcements that announced you were thinking about challenging health care reform and then announcing that you were serious about challenging health care reform. Why isn’t it fair for your detractors to say you are politicizing the issue?

Keep the pressure on. Make him answer the 5 questions.

I wish that you were already our Florida Attorney General, Senator Gelber!

What can you expect from a hill billy hack who could not get get out off his on republican primary for senator. This guy only now how to run for office. Cant say what he done for state of florida

McCollum has done nothing good for the State of Florida, but he has taken the tax payers' money to put into his own pockets and his Republican friends' pockets. It is disgusting what these Republicans continue to do! Dan, please do continue to put the pressure on McCollum.

http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20100326/NEWS/3260346/1001/RSS01 This is the link to Hood about his refusal to file against the health care bill.

Can you find out how much of Florida funds will be used for this suit? We believe that he is using the issue as a scheme to raise money for his political future. Can you find out if his election bid fund raising letters contain reference to his law suit. There's NO way they can get 67 votes to repel health care. They know it. This is bogus, a phoney deal for his political purpose and should come out of his personal funds. Please ask attorneys general, from other states, why they aren't filing suit. Romney is their poster boy that put through local universal health care, but against federal universal care. Ask moe questions, please. And there is one attorney general that refused to file suit saying it was bogus.His governor hired another man to file suit for that state. What state? What did the real attorney general say?

Dan is the man!