Posted on 07/31/2009 12:09:05 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Don’t worry, they weren’t dragged out but rather, er, “bamboozled” by cops into leaving voluntarily. Even so, file this away with Politico’s story about Democratic “town halls gone wild” as further evidence of rising anger about The One’s signature program. I can’t tell for sure if the concern here is that the current plans for health-care reform go too far or not far enough — it sounds like the latter — but either way it’s a sweet peg for Gallup’s new poll on how seniors are the age group that’s most skeptical of ObamaCare. Proof that grandma’s worried about waiting three years for a hip replacement if suddenly everyone in America’s lining up in the waiting room to get their tax-dollar money’s worth? Sure. But she’s worried about you, too:
According to recent Gallup analysis, the overwhelming majority of seniors have health insurance coverage, and roughly three-quarters of those 65 and older are covered by a government-sponsored plan, such as Medicare or Medicaid. Thus it might be expected that seniors would be more negative about the potential impact of reform on their personal situations, but perhaps more positive about its impact on others. This is not the case.
In addition to being less likely to believe healthcare reform will improve their own medical care and access, seniors are far less likely than younger adults to believe the country as a whole will benefit. Only a quarter of seniors, versus about half of those 18 to 49 and 50 to 64 years, believe a reform law would expand access to healthcare nationally…
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Oh, that’s good.
Yes. The have seen adveristy and illness and sadness in their lives and that’s what made them so strong. The crowd in DC are nothing but a bunch of pansies who have had it too good for too long. To attack seniors in this way is despicable and they may be biting off more than they can chew now.
I agree with you. They ARE souless. Do they think this will not affect their own family members and inlaws etc? Do they not give a damn about the very future of their own grandchildren and great grandchildren????? These people do not represent us. They represent their own pockets and that’s it. It is time our system changes because with technology of today...we don’t need these people representing us. We no longer need this type of system. Now they take a month off. All of a sudden the health care bill can wait a month. They disgust me every last one of them...
Problem is that most seniors or anyone else for that matter, don’t really know what’s in it. In fact, I don’t think CONGRESS knows what’s in it. I am so angry over Obama and his cohorts.
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