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 Local health care forum offers civil discussion Date published: 8/26/2009
BY JANET MARSHALL It wasn't your typical town hall meeting on health care last night--or at least, it wasn't what has often passed for typical over the past few weeks, as people around the country have gathered to debate health care reform. Unlike at some meetings elsewhere, there were no angry protesters at a forum in Fredericksburg. People didn't shout at each other. And no one--at least noticeably--brought a gun. Instead, the roughly 80 people who crammed into a meeting room at The Free Lance-Star witnessed a civil discussion of the current health care system and efforts to reform it. Moderator Christopher Lillis, a Fredericksburg physician, set the tone by giving those gathered some ground rules. "We want to show respect for each other," said Lillis, an internist with Chancellor Internal Medicine who writes a monthly health column for The Free Lance-Star. Ali Faruck, from the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy--which co-sponsored the event--spoke of the need for "a moral voice in the health care discussion." "We see the suffering that people have in the broken system," Faruck said. The event was co-sponsored by the Virginia Organizing Project, an advocacy group that promotes a public health insurance option. The perspective of most attendees and invited speakers reflected the group's view that the health care system is broken, reform is sorely needed and a public health-insurance option is necessary to cover the uninsured and underinsured. Stafford County resident Charlotte Jones shared her experience with Tricare--a military insurance program--as a way to convey her feeling that government-sponsored insurance can be effective. "It is the best-run program that I've ever been insured with," Jones said. Jones went on to address a concern that's been widely voiced elsewhere--though not at this gathering--that government-run insurance would limit which doctors patients can see. "I can choose the physicians I want to go to," Jones said. Karen Dulaney, executive director of the Lloyd F. Moss Free Clinic in Fredericksburg, didn't weigh in with an opinion on health care reform, but spoke of the rising number of people who need the clinic's help. "There was a nearly 20 percent increase in patients and patient visits in 2008," Dulaney said, adding that the figures continue to rise.
You like to talk the talk, but you can’t walk the walk. If you had read the bill you should be able to identify the page that “supposedly” states this so call death panel of yours to be true. But you can’t because it doesn’t actually exist so the only thing you can produce is blogs and Glen Beck’s tripe. Let me help you once again. HR3200 Page. 424, line 5 “Advance Care Planning”. Read slowly, and get yourself a dictionary for the big words.
of people posts.... if/when HR Bill passes, i'd like to throw it right back at them all when the time comes for them to deal with their parents, disabled offsprings, spouses "counseling panel" and they're crying foul at obamas deception...altho i'm sure they'll find some way to blame republicans or some hidden right-wing conspiracy...people like them will never own up to their own decisions and mistakes.. its much easier for them to blame others..i stay far away from them IRL, you may very well get sued!
i did read the HR Bill - unlike you who only reads what you want. .. the facts of the "death panel" since you are clearly so clueless... the HR Bill will NOT pay for prolonged care after 62 y/o... WILL NOT... the Panel is there to advise you your options--meaning, they will pay for the minimal amount of medicinal efforts to keep you alive until you are more expensive than burying you.. the "couseling" are the steps to help you COPE with facing death since its YOU pay out-of-pocket for it, or you die.. READ!
kspecial..I suggest and read what you type before you
send it.Not supporting the President on a controversial
piece of legislation is not "tantamount to treason". I
suppose that means I disgust you for making that
statement. (Your words)That's fine with me since there are
already so many guttermouths posting in these threads that
I make allowances for the lack of civility. You no doubt know
that no man is perfect and to blindly follow your President is
folly and the old saw "I vas following orders"????????
It was a typical NSDAP meeting. Speakers were required to show identification (drivers license) and he didn't believe one guy so he called him a phony. He later ate crow since the man was who he said he was.
Howard Dean answered the question why TORT reform was not included in the bill. He said"we did not want to take on the trial lawyers". Good work, just take on the American People since apparently we are lower than whale poop eh?
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