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Congressman Scott announces Health Care Community Forum
08/28/2009 3:56 PM by John M
Congressman Bobby Scott (VA 3rd District) will be holding a Richmond Health Care Community Forum on Thursday, September 3, from 7-8:30PM at the General Assembly Building. Congressman Scott will do a brief presentation on H.R. 3200, the America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009. Afterward the Congressman will take questions from the audience. This event is open to the public. Seating will be limited.
Richmond Health Care Community Forum
Thursday, September 3, 2009
7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
General Assembly Building
House Room D
910 Capitol Street
Richmond, VA 23219
Scott is a JOKE. Seating is limited to 100 people max! Come’on Bobby….100??? Whatcha scared of?
What is Bobby scared of? He’s HAVING THREE town halls. Where are Glenn Nye, Jim Webb, Mark Warner, Randy Forbes? Where are their town halls? What are THEY scared of?
Yeah Bobby’s got three, but only one in Richmond. I totally agree about Webb and Warner. Where are my Senators?….Myanmar? (It’ll always be Burma to me.)
http://gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=241
WASHINGTON, DC — Green Party leaders spoke out today against the violent disruptions taking place throughout the US at town hall meetings on health care reform.
But Greens said that both Democratic and Republican leaders deserve blame for obstructing the public debate on health care reform. Greens pointed to various attempts to silence discussion of single-payer national health care in public forums and the media, as well as spread misinformation about single-payer and the Canadian health-care system.
The Green Party is urging supporters of real universal health care to lobby their US Representatives in advance of a promised vote on the single-payer bill (http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/08/05-8). Greens have called for a nationally televised debate on the merits of single-payer and for GAO and Congressional Budget Office studies on single-payer. Analyses from these offices in the 1990s showed that single-payer will reduce health care spending by billions (http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=226).
Bobby-when will the entitlements end?
Newsflash:
Greens support rationed care and don’t understand simple economics of supply and demand… It did not work in the communist model either.
First, healthcare is not a right. Per the Declaration of Independence, our rights come from our creator; not from the pockets of middle class America. In order to fund these government run healthcare plans, these statists want to pick our pockets. Would you pick the same pockets to fund the second amendment which IS a right? Last time I checked the government is not funding a gun in every pot. Perhaps the gentleman from Oregon Hill has not looked in the cupboard of middle America; but it is bare.
Let me paint that picture of our bare American cupboard as found at USDebtClock.org. This site presents the low estimate of the current US Unfunded Liabilities at $58,900,000,000,000 or $58.9 TRILLION. The higher estimates are at $100 trillion. These unfunded liabilities are comprised of Medicare / Medicaid ($39.7 T), Social Security ($10.7T) and Prescription Drug ($8.6T). If we continue with the financial meltdown with the Bailouts ($11.9T) and the bad credit and derivatives that are still out there ($644T), we need to accept one simple fact, the cupboard is bare and these statists have run out of other people’s money. Virginia alone has had $5.6 Billion shortfall with another $1.5 B gap just announced.
WE the People need to cut government spending and programs particularly at the federal level. When it comes to healthcare reform, we need free market solutions such as those offered by CEO John Mackey of Whole Foods.
THE REST OF THE WORLD uses single payer to make sure citizens have access to a basic modicum of health care. Instead of considering single payer, Republicrats are still fighting and losing foreign wars, propping up morally-bereft corporations, and leaving the insurance lobby in charge of health care. We can’t afford not to look at single payer as a our population gets older. The reality of the baby boomers cresting is that we are going to see more rationing, no matter what. Who do you trust to do it? Insurance companies who answer to no one or the government under FOIA? The biggest outcome so far of this unfair, lopsided ‘debate’ on health care is that, while these sideshow town halls have been happening, the drug companies have already made sure that they will be free of price controls, no matter the needs of the American people. The result is that our economy will become increasingly uncompetitive with the rest of the world. Japanese car companies AND their workers who don’t have to worry about basic health care coverage.
Fact is we spend more on health care than anyone else in the world, but we rand near the bottom in life expectancy, infant mortality and other indicators. The health care industry in partnership with our government wastes billions of dollars on poorly planned treatment, mountains of paper work and special interest research. I think there needs to be a revolution in health care, but I don’t see anybody leading it. Our economic partners manage to have universal care and spend far less with better results. We should be studying their systems to see what can work best in our country.
peoplke with health care are sicker than people without it
People that believe that people with health care are sicker than people without health care are dumber than people that believe that people without health care are sicker than people with health care.
Say it three times fast.
Dear Scott Berger-some cheese for your WHINE? The only wars the US loses are when democRATS are vested in our defeat. Iraq is a democracy and Afghanistan will take time but will flourish-thanks to the military and Bush. Please so me a government program that works and I’ll show you the moon is made of cheese.
“Show me a young conservative and I’ll show you someone with no heart. Show me an adult liberal and I’ll show you someone with no brains”-Winston Churchill.
Thank you Mike, #6! TANSTAAFL (there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch)
Wow! Hey Green Statist of the World wishing for a GLOBAL GOVMINT to take care of you…
We should not be all over the world with our military… WHEN WE CANNOT AFFORD IT! We shouldn’t support cronyism special interest lobbyists who are lining their pockets with MONEY WE DON’T HAVE!! Lastly, the free market is GONE. Capitalism is DEAD. And YOU have run out of OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY!! Great system folks…
Seriously, when are you going to get educated on what the founding father’s created. A Democratic Republic that supports limited government, particularly at the federal level. That means that my life would not be run from BUREAUCRATS living in WASHINGTON DC. The more stuff you ask the government to do; the less freedom and liberty you will have. Tyranny is here folks and unless you get up off your ass and stop this left /right / D v R BULLSH!T… We AMERICANS are going to go right into the TOILET. Then we will fall for anybody and anything that will promise a better life… (sort of like those fancy infomericals selling SHAMWOWS!!) It has happened time and again… Humans are humans… A is A…
I love how people who have no cogent or rational point love to post snippets that they heard from talking heads IN ALL CAPS!! Just like how showing up at what is supposed to be a rational conversation between thinking adults trying to craft the future for themselves and their children can easily be turned into a big crap-fest of let’s-keep-everything-like-it-is-so-that-insurance-company-CEOs-can-keep-their-huge-yachts-going-and-I-can-dream-about-being-invite-aboard-someday by just YELLING loud enough. I sure hope this Richmond town hall rises above that.
To JenniferD: In your world, A is B.
Tell me wise statist, what happens when their is no money left?
http://baconsrebellion.blogspot.com/2009/09/hurricane-winds-gather.html
I sure hope their are two podiums at this supposed town hall such that both sides of the issue are can be heard on an equal footing. I fear like all the other supposed town halls, the dissenting voices will be squashed and marginalized.
For the record, I have offered a solution. Yet #15 would rather take about my elegant use of CAPS then talk about the fact we are bankrupt and the meltdown of the federal government is imminent… #15 would rather talk about style than substance… #15 is afraid that her statist views leave nothing for her to stand on execpt for her talking head rhetoric… Too harsh #15? Yes I don’t know you either and I would never jump to such conclusions…
Minor stream corrections…
“I sure hope there are two podiums at this supposed town hall such that both sides of the issue can be heard on an equal footing.”
“rather talk about my elegant use of CAPS, than”
#16: What is imminent? If the federal government does not melt down in, say, one week, one month, one year, one decade, will you post periodic admissions of error? On the other hand, if you are right, there will be no internet for any postings.
#18: I believe the blog cited had a 20-25 year horizon. It coincides with the entitlement programs (Ponzi Scheme) collapsing… The bloggist seems to think that we will have to rely on our state and local govts much more for the essentials… I am in favor of limiting the federal govt to the Constitution’s powers granted and leaving the rest for the states and the people to decide.
Have fun!