Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rRE5UK6NQU
“Town Hall Meeting with U.S. Congressman Brian Baird”
Video Description - Quote:
HedrickDavid
August 22, 2009
I, David William Hedrick, a member of the silent majority, decided that I was not going to be silent anymore. So, I let U.S. Congressman Brian Baird have it. I was one questioner out of 38, that was called at random from an audience that started at 3,000 earlier in the evening. Not expecting to be called on, I quickly scratched what I wanted to say on a borrowed piece of paper and with a pen that I borrowed from someone else in the audience minutes before I spoke. So much for the planned talking points of the right wing conspiracy.
Category: News & Politics
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/52847
“Insurance-Premium Regulation in Health Care Bill Rewards Bad Behavior, Penalizes Good”
Friday, August 21, 2009
By Matt Cover
SNIPPET: “A man holds a sign as President Obama’s motorcade heads to a town hall on health care reform, Wednesday, July 29, 2009, near a supermarket in Bristol, Va. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
(CNSNews.com) – Provisions in both the House and Senate versions of Democrats’ health care proposals bar insurance companies from tying health insurance premiums to unhealthy behavior, and that could drive up health care costs and reward unhealthy behavior such as smoking and drug abuse.
Bills in both the House and Senate limit insurance companies’ ability to adjust their premiums based on three criteria: age, geographic location, and family structure.”