100 miles for a check-up. Now that’s commonsense conservatism:
In Mike DeWine’s first week as Ohio attorney general, his car collided with a bicyclist downtown – and he ended up having the man taken on a 100-mile round trip to be treated by the officeholder’s personal physician.
Jonathan Kirk, 28, a dishwasher at Tip Top Kitchen & Cocktails, wasn’t seriously injured, but he was shaken up in the Jan. 13 morning accident. According to a Columbus police report, confirmed by accounts from DeWine and Kirk, Kirk rode his bicycle against a red light at Front and Main streets. He was knocked to the pavement by a 2008 Chrysler 300 in which DeWine was a passenger. A DeWine staff member, Robert Lagergren, was driving DeWine’s personal car. Kirk, who said he has no insurance because he can’t afford it, didn’t want to go to a hospital emergency room and left the scene to make a scheduled appointment with his parole officer. However, DeWine tracked him down and insisted that he see a doctor.
The attorney general had a staff member, Ann O’Donnell, drive Kirk to Jamestown, Ohio, about 30 miles southeast of Dayton, to see DeWine’s physician, Dr. Kevin Sherrett. The doctor did not charge for the visit, but DeWine said he asked to be billed for the cost of X-rays.
Sadly, however, the lucky winner of Mike DeWine’s Health Care For A Day limited time offer cannot follow up on the results:
Kirk told The Dispatch that he doesn’t know the results of an X-ray taken at Sherrett’s office because he doesn’t have a home phone and his cell phone was crushed in the accident.
DeWine, of course, is suing to block the Affordable Care Act.
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