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13 Responses to “Crowd Erupts In Boos When Congresswoman Announces Support For Single Payer Health Care”

1. Dred Scott says:

   September 2, 2009 at 7:45 am

   Lynn is out of touch.
2. myna says:

   September 2, 2009 at 10:03 am

   Good video. The government is in the business NOT to help people to compete and have free choices and market but protecting status quo and manipulation.
3. js says:

   September 2, 2009 at 10:11 am

   She torqued quite a few people by announcing before the town hall meeting that she was not going to attempt to change anyone’s mind on the issue but that she wanted to hear people’s opinions. I had a couple of family members at the meeting. They were seated in one of the overflow rooms where there was audio from the main room, but no video. It was quite contentious, and evenly split between pro/con positions. Overall, they said, she dodged many questions, such as, “Have you read the bill?”
4. John says:

   September 2, 2009 at 10:12 am

   Lynn is bat-shit crazy. But hey — it’s Petaluma.
5. A Lale says:

   September 2, 2009 at 10:16 am

   Er, have you watched the clip? They cheer her when she announces her stance, not boo. I am against single-payer, but the people at this town hall are for it, I’m guessing. You need to find a better title for this clip.
6. Jon says:

   September 2, 2009 at 10:46 am

   Something I’ve never understood:

   If single-payer universal healthcare systems are so great, why aren’t the states doing it already? Absolutely nothing prevents California from setting up a universal healthcare system on its own.

   Unless it’s those huge budget deficits due to ballooning, mismanaged government programs… Hmm…
7. Brian King says:

   September 2, 2009 at 11:44 am

   Thanks for sharing this video. The woman business owner seemed to own that crowd – and her point is very well taken. Some very simple changes (maybe one sheet of a bill) could really serve us better than the 1300 page nightmare out there now.
8. Bill McNutt says:

   September 2, 2009 at 12:14 pm

   I bet that was an ugly surprise. Modern American politicians are not accustomed to being booed like that.
9. Bleeding heart conservative, Seattle says:

   September 2, 2009 at 12:21 pm

   Of the people cheering when Woolsey, prim, imperious and tight-lipped, said she supports a single-payer healthcare system (govt monopoly), I would bet that not one of them has ever created a job for another person. Perspectives change when you’re a job creator/producer than when you are a job recipient.
10. John Shoaf says:

    September 2, 2009 at 1:39 pm

    It will mean nothing, the brain dead will continue to support the Obama power grab and this awful bill.
11. Teddy's SEARCH+RESCUE says:

    September 2, 2009 at 6:07 pm

    KennedyCare!

    What could go wrong?
12. teqjack says:

    September 2, 2009 at 8:13 pm

    Cover the uinsured… By having government cover the eight percent who are not by taking over the whole health-care business (no, not just “insurance” – everything) of the full one hundred percent.

    Except, well, who are the uninsured? And are they really unable to get help? Well, a lot are healthy youngsters who (as is normal) do not think they need it, some are between jobs and COBRA or what-have-you means paying the ninety percent your employer used to as well as the ten percent you did ["benefits" like that are not part of your unemployment check...], quite a few are children, and the rest are simply unable for one reason or another to handle paying. Do they risk bleeding to death in the street because n doctor will treat them? Uh, no.

    Example of that inability-to-pay. For two years I was in a shelter for the homeless. None of us had health insurance. All of us had access to doctors, treatments, etc. And yes, because “government” – i.e. tax-paying citizens – paid. Once I got through the SocSec maze I enteerd MediCare – again, paid with “other people’s” money.

    Does that mean I support this takeover? NO! Cetainly not one that looks like the British or Canadian systems: possibly one that looks like other European systems, though I doubt it… Yes, there are problems, and some are fixable or at least improvable. But I am not about to trade in our stretch limo health care for a rickshaw simply because there is a smear of mustard on the armrest of the driver’s door.
13. Doug says:

    September 3, 2009 at 1:56 am

    She came there with her mind made up and she will not change it no matter what the people say. She is just another ignorant, arrogant Democrat who takes their orders from old stretched face.