Columnist Scheer Hits Mark On Paid Health Care for Pols

Gazette editor and columnist has the happy privilege of not only paying for his own dental work - postponed to 2013 - but also contributing to politicians and welfare recipients -with no delay for them for their dental work.

The way it works today: Government passes laws to ensure it has better  programs for its own than for the working middle class who support them. Who else would stand for such an outrageous injustice except the cowed and bullied middle class American?

The way it worked then: He may not have had nice teeth, but he  paid for his own dental work. When Woodrow Wilson retired he was poor and yet turned down lucrative legal work because he felt people were not hiring him, but his position as former president. Would Clinton or Bush do that?

I cannot say I always agree with my colleague Mark Scheer of the Niagara Gazette, but last week he wrote a story after my own heart in his weekly entitled: “A kick in the teeth.”

After writing, “There’s one party and one party only in America: The Politician Party.” And, “Most of the incumbents have a serious ‘me-first’ attitude," he described a trip to his dentist’s office:

"I happened to be standing at the counter discussing how I couldn’t afford to pay for the dental work I needed because my insurance coverage had run out for the year. My teeth would have to wait until 2013.

“As I stood there, I asked the counter help if they thought public office holders, their spouses, their children or their staffers would have to worry about such things? They don’t, of course, not when they have taxpayer-subsidized, fully-funded health and dental insurance which, very often, offers top-of-the-line coverage.”

Scheer is right and I might also add that many of these same elected officials fought to make sure that those who do not work – those who are on welfare - also get top-of-the-line Medicaid coverage that includes amazingly both free dental and eye care.

That’s right; the elected officials and the people who do not work get better health care than those who work to pay for it.

Now Scheer proves he can see fairly well - when he concludes his piece - so I assume he doesn’t need the free eye care which he isn’t going to get because he works in the private sector, but he did offer a happy thought on the me-first politicians as he concludes, “I can’t help but feel so many (elected officials) are offering empty solutions to real problems through their nice, straight, white, taxpayer-subsidized teeth.”

Smile.