Greg Ball got "KennedyCare" before he got single-payer health care

Not only has Assembly member Greg Ball (who's running for Congress against John Hall in NY-19) been getting government-paid, single-payer health care for most of his adult life, he also recalls how the Kennedy family paid for his health care when he was a child.

From the article in Hindu Business Line, a publication in India:

Ball narrates an incident from his childhood that sowed the seeds for his passion. "My godmother was personal secretary to Joseph Kennedy, the father of Jack Kennedy. As an infant I had cat-scratch fever, and Jean Kennedy- Smith, Jack Kennedy's sister, asked my parents to take me to a hospital. When my parents said they couldn't afford it, she said she would take care of everything. And, within five minutes, there were 10 doctors around me. I think those little interactions that I had as a kid with that family in particular showed me how well power could be used."

He feels that people should use their abilities to impact others positively, because there is both good and evil in this world. "Evil exists, and we have to fight it at every turn."

I must say, what a compassionate clan the Kennedy family has been, and despite their wealth they took it upon themselves to care for a small baby who was, at the very best, tenuously connected to them. What's even more amazing is that Joseph Kennedy was dead for some eight years before Greg was born, so they cared enough to keep in touch with their death patriarch's secretary's, God son. And what a great bit of irony (if not hypocrisy), considering that Greg is campaigning against American families getting the health care that they need with his so-called town halls, which are nothing more than his spreading fear, fake outrage, and misinformation to the people of the district that he hopes to serve.

Unforunately, I like most every American, don't have connections to the Kennedys or any other ultra-wealthy family.

My son, who has autism, has had more than $30,000 in medical bills that two health-insurance companies refused to cover. It put my family on the brink of financial ruin. Greg and his family should feel fortunate enough to have such friends to pay for his health care when he was a child. Wouldn't Greg Ball want every child to have an opportunity to have to see a doctor when their health is imperiled without bankrupting their families?

I think it's time that the Assembly member did some sincere soul searching before he spreads more fear and lies about the health-care reform that Ted Kennedy so wanted for all American families.
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Greg Ball demonstrates unparalleled command of government process

Funny stuff.

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Stop Greg Ball from making a mockery of the health care reform debate

Assembly member Greg Ball (who is running against Democrat John Hall for Congress this fall) is trying to take down Democratic health care initiatives by staging his own sham town halls. There will be plenty of astroturfing and choreographed outrage from Ball and his acolytes, and it’s all meant to DESTROY PRESIDENT OBAMA’S PUBLIC OPTION PLAN, which will make health care affordable and accessible to millions of Americans.

Ball is using this insincere forum to spread his own dangerous ultraconservative demagoguery. These misleading “town halls,” if we leave them to Ball and his supporters, will contain nothing but fabricated, bombastic, and inflammatory rhetoric. They are meant to be a dog and pony show staged for the local and national media to demonstrate that the constituents of the 19th Congressional District are rabidly against health care. Ball is shamelessly staging this chicanery to exploit an issue that is more moral than political to further his career advancement.

Whether you support a single-payer or public option universal health care plan, you must help stop Assemblyman Ball from making a mockery and political football out of such a critical moral issue.

I’m asking that those that stand for real health-care reform—especially those in the 19th Congressional District—attend one of these flimflam meetings to show our unity. Barrage Ball and his acolytes with thoughtful questions and educated statements, but do not heckle or interrupt the speakers as the Republican-paid activists have done.

It’s critical that we step up our efforts now for affordable health care and move toward universal health care. As our health-care system is currently structured, the system will become financially unsustainable in five to ten years. If you think the economy is in a funk right now, what will it be like when some 100 million people are without health care coverage and skyrocketing health care costs financially cripple those with insurance?

There is no issue so critical to our nation’s economic future as health-care reform. Please don’t allow the obstructionist Republicans to make a mockery of it.

Here are a list of events to attend below:

Greg Ball and Assemblywoman Annie Rabbit
Monday, August 17th, 7 PM (doors open 6:30)
Greenwood Lake American Legion Arthur Finnegan Post
40 Mountain Lakes Lane
Greenwood Lake

Greg Ball and Town Supervisor Oan Pagonez
Wednesday August 19th 7 PM, (doors open 6:30)
(Note new location)
Hotel Sierra Suites Conference Room
100 Westage Business Center Dr, Fishkill, NY 12524

Greg Ball and Cornwall Town Supervisor Kevin Quigley
Friday, August 21st 7 PM (doors open 6:30)
Munger Cottage – Cornwall Community Center
183 Main St.
Cornwall, NY 12518
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