A statement of fact...
there was an article written....fact...
it exposed no lie....fact...
lets examine it this way....howie
lets say you relate an expirence you had...i can't disprove it...nor can you prove it,
to the standards you are holding others too...should i just dismiss your attempt
to share your life experience with me based on your own view of how something is judged true or not ?
if so...is it fair to you...when you know in your heart it is the truth...just because you can't back it up with a photograph or audio recording...or even a witness ?
I understand and even agree with you in part.. but that's not what this is.. The comment he made..
"We have people pull up at the pharmacy window in a BMW and say they can't afford their co-payment."he used as a fact and the reason why the states are so over budget and why they need new regulation.. So to ask him to prove this statement of fact that he made, is acceptable..
the actual context..
Last month, the nation's Republican governors wrote to the president and congressional leaders, asking for those rules to be removed. They revived the issue with their fellow governors. "I had to come up with $540 million to plug the Medicaid hole. I think we have gotten way too liberal with eligibility," Iowa Gov. Terry Brandstad (R) said. "The federal government, with the maintenance of effort, has really tied our hands."
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) said states should also be free, for instance, to compel Medicaid patients to pay for part of their medicine, saying, "We have people pull up at the pharmacy window in a BMW and say they can't afford their co-payment." he states this as a fact and a reason for wanting legislation.... and yet cannot be questioned on it?
I disagree..
of course there could be 100 valid and non-nefarious reasons for this person to be in a bmw and have no copay money.. but he's not talking about those reasons, by using the example the way he did,he saying there isn't a valid reason and he's asking for legislation in return.. and that's the difference here.. had he just said it, then fine.. but he's using them as the reason he should be allowed to do something.. well prove they exist and maybe we'll give you what you ask for..if they are in such an overwhelming majority as to be driving entire states budget into the ground, there should be some proof...
yeah.. he totally deserves questioning on this.. and the label given to him for not being able to prove his fact..
