Ledger Live - Can there be any room for a centrist at a health care reform town hall meeting?

Ledger Live for Wednesday August 26, 2009 - Ledger Live with Brian Donohue. There was no discussion, no real listening, and no room for a central view point at the Red Bank, New Jersey middle school town hall meeting on health care reform Tuesday. Congressman Frank Pallone held the meeting to let people express their feelings on the bill that he sponsored. People were booed and yelled at, including a wheelchair-bound woman, and no one seemed to want to hear what the other side was saying.

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[pepsitruck]

Wow. This country is stupid.

[LosAngelesWriter]

These right wingers are such idiots, funny how they're defending health insurance companies that would let them die in the street.

GOP = LESS HEALTH CARE, MORE DISEASE!

[doggylover451]

I GO TO RBMS!!

[ixaxion]

"Anything those people are against, I should be for."

You have just proven you are not very intelligent.

I enjoy how you can say the plan doesn't pay for itself, then talk about death panel myth. Try this: No $ = rationing = Obama's "medical health advisory boards" or Britain's NICE.

Reason? What's unreasonable about looking through history where the same programs have been tried before, started "small", became huge and failed. There's no debate because sane people know how this ends.

[TheBluesky911]

Yea Americans are so ignorant, it's embarrassing.

[mf93b0]

Angry mob, ever heard of the First Amendment?

[Laynep123]

If Obama cares about the blind and paraplegic why is he so focused on more red-taped government beaurocracy instead of lifting the limitations on stem cell treatment? Even here in Germany stem cell treatments are legal but our "public option" doesn't cover treatment. People with private insurance are able to get the treatments covered. Your fervor is focused on an admirable goal but the wrong means to getting there.

[sudnem]

Centrist? Hmmm.

[Laynep123]

So the government run healthcare already doesnt work and now you want more. and I am the numbskull... by the way.. how are you reading this?

[rockhendricks]

I am am blind and they have turned me down 3 times numbskull,You are wrong wake up Dude it doesnt work that easy,They turn away parapaligics now to,They are so swamped thats there way of delaying benifets

[Laynep123]

If you are blind or otherwise disabled you already qualify for government run healthcare, it is called Medicaid, I would have to agree then with the person who yelled "it's your fault" these people already qualify for the programs that are in place but don't have the wherewithall to go out and get it. What more do want the government to do, send someone to your house to sign you so you dont actually have to do the work yourself?

[shamgar001]

(con't)

Do you care to help your fellow man? Then do that. no conservativce will stop you. But you have no right to use the gov't power of force to make me care for them. I will do that by my own power.

And by the way, conservative households gove 30% more to charities than liberal households; you claim that "the right" is "brainwashed against providing care for our fellow humans" is absolutely false.