Paul Broun Walks Away After He Cannot Answer A Direct Question

Rep. Paul Broun [R-GA10] is asked a direct question from Athens, GA constituent Ryan Lewis concerning health care reform. Broun walks away as he cannot answer. Video shot by Gordon Lamb.
(September 8, 2009, Oconee County Civic Center, Oconee County, GA)
Transcript:
Lewis: Dr Broun, can I ask you a very quick question?

Broun: Very quickly

Lewis: Well, I was raising my hand the whole time, there's something I wanted to bring up which is the issue of the under... underinsured. I pay $200 a month for my wife and I to have health insurance and um for (clearly I meant in) the last 2 years I've passed 12 kidney stones. 12 kidney stones! With no medical attention because I can't get it covered because I have catastrophic insurance with a $200 dollar deductible, *laughs* I mean a $20,000 deductible.

Lewis: So me paying $200 a month is all I can afford to pay for health insurance, so if you could tell me -? just very quickly - how your plan will make it so we can address that issue because everything you said didn't involve the government at all being involved in trying to stop the profit based, profit motivated system.

Broun [interrupting]: We need to make... we need to make insurance affordable to you sir...

Lewis [interrupting]: Right...

Broun [interrupting]: So that you can...

Lewis: Right, right well how do we do that? How do we do that?

Broun: Well by expanding health savings accounts and that so...

Lewis [interrupting]: No, no, no, I HAD a health savings account actually and that didn't help, because all it was was...

Broun [interrupting]: Well, well the current ones... the current ones don't work, we've got...

Lewis [interrupting]: Yeah, yeah I've heard about THOSE, so really you don't have an answer?!

Broun: We're working on it... if you have any... if YOU have suggestions, send? it to me. I'd like to hear 'em, I'd like...

Lewis [interrupting]: Really?! Would you?!

Chairman of Jackson County GOP [interrupting, grabbing my shoulder and spinning me around]: Lemme just [hands me his card] (unintelligible )

Broun [shaking hands with and completely ignoring the people trying to talk to him]: Thank you, bless you, God bless you... [confused looking at sign held by Jill Carnes that said: "will work for health care"] HUH?! What?! Well... ha I under... [unintelligible].

Gordon Lamb [cameraman]: He's not answering... Not answeri [cuts off]

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[DeturnToForever]

Full transcript now added to information box on the right of this page.

[jeffwads]

haha, typical liberal spin on a bullshit situation.  Sad bastards man.

[DeturnToForever]

Sure, a first-person, on-site, fully-contextualized video is "spin". Whatever.

[clintatl]

This man i sthe worst. He does not represent all Georgians... jsut the lunatic far right fringe of birthers. He needs to go know. Athens GA deserves better!

[preneel]

I am embarrassed to say this is my congressman but I didn't nor ever would vote for him.

[Silberdachs]

Paul Broun is an ignorant cunt. Period.

[mtsflorida]

Paul Broun certainly was not running away from answer but it looked as if the

question was negatively brought up again and again to a point that our representative was being abused. This is a shameful and disrespectful act.

[butuh13]

@mtsflorida It was Broun's forum. He had all the opportunity in the world to talk to the guy. He walked away. The "tea party" say they want a more open, responsive government. Broun was neither open nor responsive to a very clear question from a guy with insurance problems. There is no "smear" here. The right-wing simply has no answer for the nation's health care crisis. Broun's inability to answer a question from a citizen about insurance makes it all too clear that at least he had no answer.

[dallasdawg2010]

TEA PARTY PATRIOTS ATTENTION! Ask your congressmen and congresswomen to stand firm. Reject Obamacare by refusing the coverage offered by our government. Walk the walk! Hypocrits all!

[24hourpartypooper]

@1jpindorski, absolutely! About as far left as you can get without falling into the Pacific ocean. Don't you know by now that anyone who bothers to call out a "conservative" is OBVIOUSLY a far-left communist? I mean, DUH!.

[1jpindorski]

It is plain to see that you didn't want an answer and every time he tried to talk you interupted him. Your scheme to smear the Congressman didn't work. You are obviously a far left socialist/communist.

[mtsflorida]

I never saw anything that would make broun out to be incompetent.

[mtsflorida]

@DeturnToForever still nlooking for the transcript

[mtsflorida]

No he didn't walk away from a question, but from a one sided discussion. The santa claus wonna be didn't give him a chance to talk. He was evidently try to make a point. You must get dialog ( 2 way conversation going) and not try to be the center of attention when asking a question. Come on now you have wasted everyones time with this ignorant attack.

[DEricKesler]

Paul Broun is terrible. Did you know he practiced medicine for a while without a license? Look it up.