Fear Not, Hoosiers! Baron Hill Has an Answer to Your Health Care Woes!

...or not.

He's proposing yet another commission to study the issue.

Sort of reminds me of all of the commissions and studies (and studies to study the study, and then studies to study the study that studied the study; try saying that three times fast) that have been done for a bridge over the Ohio River east of Louisville.

So much for Baron actually doing anything that would really benefit Hoosiers.

Heck, it's a partisan sham job, rather than a genuine or sincere bipartisan effort.

Republicans in Congress are completely shut out of the process, and the White House is given one appointment space to Congress' four (and none of those four include any Republicans; just Democrat committee chairmen).

Indeed, the Democrats reserve to themselves positions as "co-chairmen" of the commission; Baron's proposal makes no pretense of bipartisanship whatsoever, despite the importance of the issue and the need for both parties to work together to address it.

This is little more than a cheap election year political stunt by Baron to cover his rear and to allow him to back down from his earlier declarations regarding health care.

Back in January of 2007, Baron proclaimed, "I think access to health care is a constitutional right."

I have read the Constitution; I can't find it in there, but I digress.

Baron then went on to declare, "What we ultimately do remains to be seen."

No, really?

Anyhow, Baron had obviously not read the Constitution; there is no right to health care contained within its articles or amendments.

After this shocking revelation (Baron is a constitutional scholar without peer, after all), Baron declared in April of 2007 that he would put forward a constitutional amendment to make health care a right.

He never did so.

Instead, he has settled for creating yet another sham commission to study health care instead.

Baron couldn't even have the courage of his convictions to follow through with his "health care is a right" rhetoric; he had to settle for some politics-as-usual gimmick instead.