Health-care reform swamps Jackson City Hall - Rep. Lungren (R)

[Kadie]

Health-care reform swamps Jackson City Hall

Tuesday, August 25, 2009
By Roger Phelps

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Among placard-holders, it seemed that a majority supported Pres. Barack Obama's current reform proposal. However, it was obvious that a majority of the crowd as a whole were Lungren faithful eager to back Lungren's opposition to the current Obama plan.

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"I want you to be vigorous, to be passionate, but let's show respect for one another," he cautioned.

It sort of worked, and sort of didn't.

A man noted Lungren's Catholic education and chided him for demonstrating no grasp of the doctrine of "social justice" he heard espoused in college.

Angry audience voices called out, "Ask a question."

A woman, also making a speech before asking a question, related a tale of surviving ovarian cancer and running a successful business only to close it and take a low-paying job - just for health benefits to cover no more than regular checkups, which she estimated had cost her some $20,000 in six years.

A man's voice shouted, "Let's skip the Obama plants."

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Lungren made a point to complain both at the beginning of his talk and at the end that Republicans had offered a total of 31 amendments to the Obama bill "and not one was adopted."

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http://ledger-dispatch.com/news/newsview.asp?c=260056

[babylonsister]

1. Another lying rethug sack of poop.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/17/gop-got-substantive-chang_n_237441.html

GOP Got Substantive Changes To Health Care Bill, Despite Claims: Slate

When the Senate health, education, labor, and pensions committee passed its health care bill Wednesday, the Obama administration hailed it as a "bipartisan" effort. No matter that it passed the panel on a strictly party-line vote, with all 13 Democrats voting for and all 10 Republicans voting against. It was bipartisan, administration officials explained, because it contained 160 Republican amendments. Republican senators said that characterization was absurd. After all, they said, most of the 160 amendments were technical, rather than substantive, changes. Lisa Murkowsi of Alaska told the New York Times that, while it was "pretty impressive" that 20 of her amendments were accepted, "they were all technical."