Posted on 08/12/2009 1:56:38 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
Verbal sparks flew at U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown’s forum on overhauling the health care system.
The forum, lasting nearly two hours, was held on Wednesday, Aug. 12, in Columbus at Ohio State University’s Biomedical Research Tower.
Mike NeutzLing, 56, a nurse at the Ohio State University Medical Center, blasted plans by President Barack Obama, Brown, D-Ohio, and others to overhaul the system. He said 80 percent of Americans are satisfied with he health care they have now.
Neutzling said “the whole concept of limited government is being tossed out the window.”
The nation’s founders “understood that when you have unlimited government you have unlimited tyranny,” he said.
Jeff Davidson, 58, a retired accountant from Dublin, strongly disagreed, urging Brown and Obama to come up with a plan to provides coverage for uninsured Americans.
“I want you to raise my taxes,” said Davidson. “I can afford it.”
The current system is “immoral,” he said.
Brown for the most part succeeded in keeping the discussion civil and interrupted several times to silence hecklers on both sides of the issue.
“This has been very helpful,” he said to the 150 people in the center. Hundreds more were in overflow rooms, according to event officials.
Brown set the tone for the forum with a blast at the current system.
“…Americans are paying more and more for their insurance and getting less and less,” said Brown, the son of a physician.
After the session, he told reporters he didn’t think the discussion was one-sided.
“If it was stacked, I’m not sure which way it was stacked,” said Brown.
Good points!!!
dope
I think they are parading this awful House bill around as a stalking horse. If no one had complained then Bam!, it is law. However, now with all the backlash, they will hammer out another bad bill but just not as bad as the present one, and everyone will settle on a “compromise” bill that is almost as bad but with the most objectionable aspects removed. Then that will pass and the can of Socialism will have been kicked further down the road.
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