Jo Bonner's "Town Hall" meetings illustrate just how much needless hysteria surrounds the issue. And, just how disingenuous or irresponsible it is to hold supposedly informational meetings across the district but never correct any of the fears and misapprehensions of your constituents? Kudos to this lady from Prichard who calls Bonner out on it. Now, I wasn't there, so I don't know what the congressman's ultimate response was to the lady who was afraid of losing her health care because she is old (and, therefore, apparently, worthless and powerless without the good-willed intervention of her insurance company) or to the wild assertion that the government can attach your bank account, but I do know that it was Bonner's response to the crazy allegation about illegal aliens, not the questioner's (as this Steve Alexander piece suggests), that that was the "reason we must defeat this thing." After all, Bonner opines, there's nothing wrong with the system of health care we have now.
(WKRG-TV)
Be sure you check out this KEITH OLBERMANN PIECE that shows vintage Reagan attacking "Socialized Medicine" (aka Medicare) and see if you don't see any parallels.
See also this MEDIA MATTERS PIECE
The sound is horrible on this HOWARD DEAN VIDEO but the talking points are well worth a listen. Here's a NEWS PIECE about Dean's position.
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