Last night I saw this video :

In it, the woman speaking to her Senator, Tom Coburn, R-Oklahoma, tells him that her husband has a traumatic brain injury and was basically kicked out of a nursing home and told they were on their own. This poor man has a feeding tube, can’t speak… and has insurance that is denying him the coverage he deperately needs.

Senator Coburns response is shocking to me. He tells her not to look to the government for help, but to look to her neighbors. Are you kidding me? Because we all have nurses and doctors living next door that are going to just “drop in” and assist this woman for free right? “Why on earth would you expect your government to have compassion and caring towards the “little people” lady. We don’t care about you.”, seems to be the message Senator Coburns is conveying. “Go see if there’s some bleeding heart liberals in your neighborhood to help you out and leave me alone!”

The irony is, he knows he’s been put on the spot and offers to help her and her husband. He tells her to get in touch with his office and he will see what he can do. I have to wonder how hard that was for him. To show fake compassion because he’s on tape and his constituents can all see how much of a heartless prick he really is if he doesn’t offer her some kind of help publicly.

So now, the government we shouldn’t turn to for help, that isn’t there to solve our problems.. Senator Coburn is offering to help her. So does that mean that every other person in america should call up Senator Coburn when their insurance companies deny them desperately needed help?

Maybe that’s just what should happen and then Senator Coburn may get a better idea of how many people are truly in desperate need of help. Maybe that’s what every american who’s been denied health care should do. Call your senators and ask them to hook you up with a doctor at their expense. Since the government isn’t the answer to your problems and you should turn to your neighbors.. and who do you know who’s more powerful in your neighborhood than your elected officials.

Somewhere along the line, the people we elect need to realize that they work for us and not the banks and insurance companies that give them huge contributions to help them get re-elected.

The same companies that charge us outrageous fees and deny us when we come to them for help. Everyone is yelling about the death panels in the governments health care bill, but didn’t this womans husband already face one from their insurance company? And they decided he wasn’t worth helping and sent him home with a feeding tube and absolutely no help.

Who are we supposed to turn to for help when these things happen? I was sure it was our elected officials. The people we gave big paychecks, tons of perks and oh yeah.. free health care paid by us. Not the guy who lives next door, that’s for sure.

Help thy neighbor is a noble cause, but when it comes to needing a kidney transplant, somehow I don’t think the auto mechanic next door is the best choice for me to turn to for help.

So this is to our Senators and Representatives who are against this health care bill… Get your heads out of your asses. The american people need your help and it’s your job to provide it. Quit bending to your corporate masters and do the job you were elected to do.