VIDEO: Rep. Charles Boustany's rebuttal to President Obama's health care speech

By GottaLaff

My original post on Boustany is here.

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Here he is: Bobby Jindal II, with the same inferior sound quality and inability to speak effectively.

Boustany to deliver Republican response Wednesday

By GottaLaff

What? No Ba-ba-ba-Bobby?

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Rep. Charles Boustany, R-Louisiana, will give the Republican response to President Obama’s address to Congress on health care reform tomorrow night.

Boustany, a former doctor, is a member of the House Ways and Means Committee.

He's a heart surgeon. He's anti-choice, anti-stem cell research, anti gay rights, and, oh yes, there's this:

The health professionals industry is Boustany's No. 1 career campaign backer. Other doctors and health professionals have given him more than $971,000 since 2003. That's nearly twice has much as Boustany's second ranking industry donor — Republican leadership PACs, which have contributed about $589,000. And that's nearly three times as much as his third ranked industry — oil and gas companies, which have given $334,600. Boustany has also collected more money from the health sector than any other sector, with $1.1 million. That's roughly 18 percent of Boustany's overall haul. [...]

On Health Reform: Boustany is a member of the House Republican Health Care Reform Working Group, which has argued for legislation that focuses on market-based approaches to health care reform. Boustany has criticized existing government-run programs for lacking real access to doctors and has railed against a single-payer system, which he says would lead to rationing of health care services. [...] Meanwhile, Boustany has floated other legislation that would provide for expanded tax code incentives for private health insurance options, such as treating Medicare supplemental insurance premiums as a tax-deductible medical expense and creating a new tax deduction for high deductible health plan premiums. He opposes current Democrat-supported efforts to overhaul the health care system and increase the federal government's role. [...] "But simply forcing everyone onto a government-run bureaucracy will not provide anything more than a plastic card, not access to a doctor."

Industry Favors: Every year that he's been in office, Boustany has been honored for supporting the legislative positions of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which is the top overall spender on federal lobbying and this year opposes a government-administered public insurance plan. Boustany also received accolades from another lobbying powerhouse that is likewise resisting a public insurance option, the American Medical Association, after he successfully added two amendments to a 2005 education bill. [...]

In His Own Words: "I believe a government takeover of health care will put bureaucrats in charge of health care decisions," Boustany wrote in an op-ed piece last month. "These decisions should not be made by bureaucrats, but by families and the doctors of their choice. Tax hikes will be required to pay for government healthcare. This is something Republicans cannot support."