9 Comments

• 1. Butchey Weinstein replies at 20th August 2008, 7:58 pm :

  Is Arps now on Steele’s payroll now, also? Steele is anything but a good communicator, and anything but a good Republican. This is the guy who tried to extend school free lunch programs through the summer, further incentivising poor-decision making and bad parenting among the parents who’s kids will most benefit from my tax dollars being poured down their throat. And speaking of bad Republicanism, what else is “Nick’s Law” but a shameless display of croneyism over principle? I don’t care how many Republican presidents Wayne Rohde wrote speeches for or how many of Barry Goldwater’s books he purports to have read, government redistribution of wealth is evil and socialistic. Forcing insurance companies to fund autism treatment, dependent pregnancy treatment, or hangnail treatment is NOT a proper role of government, regardless how many slick lawyers try to say that Reagan and Goldwater would approve.

• 2. Wayne Rohde replies at 21st August 2008, 6:17 am :

  Butchey Weinstein, if that is your real name.
  Thanks for the comments.
  Acutally you have it right, sort of.

  “redistribution of wealth is evil and socialistic.” You need to change who is doing that. Insurance companies are actually shedding less desireable risk and forcing that medical care on to the taxpayers of Oklahoma and the US. that is not capitolism, it is what you referred to earlier.

  Nick’s Law is not asking for government handouts of money or welfare. It’s about the ability to have insurance coverage for a epedemic medical condition that currently we are paying for in premiums and not recieving coverage. By the way, 10 years ago, autism treatments were covered by some insurance companies.

• 3. Butchey Weinstein replies at 22nd August 2008, 7:07 pm :

  Actually, what you’re doing is trying to change the mechanism and give government more control in a private sector industry, and that’s all you’re doing. You’re trying to use the power of government to other people to pay your medical expenses. To say that’s not socialism is not only wrong, it’s devious misrepresentation. If your insurance company told you autism was covered and reneged, then you’re paying for services that you’re not getting. My health insurance won’t pay for a new water pump on my car, but then, they never said they would. That’s life.

  Did you ever stop to ask yourself why there’s an autism epidemic? Here’s a clue: Autism is the new ADHD. Remember a few years ago, when any boy who acted like a boy had something wrong with him and needed some trance-like state-inducing drugs to get him out of his parents’ hair? Well, now the diseaseof the month has changed. Any kid who’s socially inept, bad at sports or a daydreamer, yet who excels in one specific area or another is suddenly autistic.

  You want to end the epidemic? Tell the doctors to quit misdiagnosing and overdiagnosing.

• 4. Wayne Rohde replies at 23rd August 2008, 6:54 am :

  Butchey

  Too bad that you do not understand autism. It is not the next ADHD. Any your hate comments will not be tolerated.

  You will be paying for all these children in the long run. Too damn worried about spending that penny and looking at it too closely that you can not see dolllar bill in savings that your are holding.

  The taxpayers will be paying for this epidemic, that is why several other states in the last 2 years alone have recognized this issue. Texas, South Carolina, Arizona, Florida, Louisiana, and Penn, have all passed similar legislation.

  Without the proper treatments and therapies, these children will become the wards of the state. At the current cost of $3.25 million per child, we will be adding 400 kids to the roles of dependancy of the taxpayers each year in OK. Do the math and you will find that the cost is now 20% of our state budget.

  80% of these kids are under the age of 16. When the first big wave hits in a couple of years and they start applying for individual state services, it will be a nightmare. MOST of the legislators understand that fact.

  You as a taxpayer will have to pay for this or we can do something about it now.

  So much for your compassionate conservatism by just ignoring what is happending.

  Wayne Rohde

• 5. Butchey Weinstein replies at 23rd August 2008, 8:30 am :

  Sounds like you have it all figured out. Are physicians orchestrating a plan to diagnosis X number of children by 2010? Taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay for this, either through traditional welfare systems or through having their insurance companies be forced to cover it. Either way, one person is forced to bear another person’s burden, and that’s not only wrong, it’s an illegitimate, tyrranical exercise of governmental power. Read “The Law”, by Frederic Bastiat, if you want to learn what is and is not the proper role of government in our lives.

• 6. Butchey Weinstein replies at 23rd August 2008, 8:31 am :

  Oh, and my comments are not hate comments, just because they point out unpleasant truths you’ve heretofore turned a blind eye to.

• 7. This Blog Sucks replies at 24th August 2008, 3:34 pm :

  Um, supporting liberal ideas that earns you glowing press coverage is not exactly advancing the party.

• 8. Sheri replies at 18th January 2009, 8:56 pm :

  You do not trouble shoot Butchey. If you feel hate that is your hang up and very well off the issues. We did not come here to discuss your feelings, get a therapist. Autism is usuallly either early onset at birth or it is late onset or called a regressive type.. Usually before age 3. Most pediatricians will not prescribe drugs to infants . Autism is not treated with drugs unless another problem is there. Being the compassionate person you are I suppose you give a crap. You are nothing but a self serving, self focused person with no regards of anyone but you in your little stretch of personal space. Take your vote to the door and share it with yourself,. In the mean time, the rest of us will do something productive like find a solution. You go Wayne, keep fighting.

• 9. Butchey Weinstein replies at 9th February 2009, 11:31 pm :

  So because I don’t want to be FORCED to fund someone else’s medical expenses, I’m against helping kids with autism? That’s quite an illogical leap there, Sheri.

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