Wheelchair-Bound Woman Shouted Down At New Jersey Health Care Town Hall (VIDEO)

i know were a capitalist nation but we've also want competion as well this will just be an incentive for HMO's to offer lower rates and better service. i still do curse nixon for introducing hmos great way to scam america and make money and kill people in the process. i agree with empire we all want were just gonna disagrre on somethings but this is horrid and wow that guy could only come up with that after he was told what she had. what a ass.

Why aren't these people being arrested and JAILED for their disruptions? I want to hear these morons screaming "DON"T TASER ME BRO! Town hall doesn't mean free for all. If this was a republican operation you'd need a hand picketed invitation just to get in and if you caused any trouble you'd be on your way to jail. Don't get me wrong the dissenters have a right to be heard but only when it is their turn at the microphone any other time they should get stomped by the cops and carried off in cuffs .

So many adults acting like scared angry children. The sky isn't falling. There are no death panels. It is going to cost more tax dollars, but we will live in a nation where less people fall in the cracks then now. Maybe when people are more equal and less desperate to survive, we as a society can conduct town hall meetings with respect for other individuals even if one doesn't share their point of view.

Signs should have read "Standing Together, For Nothing New."

With socialized health-care your going to have the same thing you have now, just run by different people. You'll get the same service, but under new management.

Same candy, different wrapper.

Excellent video!

It seems people are afraid of change.....afraid of something better.

I don't like the idea of The Elderly being shafted.

The woman in the wheelchair being heckled like that was VERY disturbing. She deserved to be heard. People forget: No matter what...EVERYONE has a place "a talent" in this world. Everyone Does.

I'm in STRONG support of HR 676.

Huffington post is a lying news source and I have lost a lot of respect for....what very little I've had.

I really voted this down because no one in this video BIT THE FREAKIN' FINGER off an old man like a pro-Obama man.

BIT A FINGER OFF.

Oh no they heckled a woman...did she lose a finger? Did a hater bite a finger off? No.

Should they treat her like that? No. They were wrong.

But this video sucks.

This video is very upsetting to me not because of the manner of the people in this town hall meeting but because of the manner in which this video degrades, demoralizes and pity's the disabled. Does it matter at all that this woman used a wheelchair??? If any person with a terminal illness had been telling their story but they didn't have a visible disability this wouldn't be on here. I am also very offended by the usage of the phrase wheelchair bound in the title.

My town hall meeting lasted for 2 hours. Most of the time was burned up by people telling their sob stories and only a few people were allowed to ask questions about the proposed health care bill. It felt like I was at a support group and not a public forum. I feel bad for sick people, but you are only pissing people off when you don't ask a question in a timed meeting with your elected official. Respect in the crowd has to go both ways...?

"Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency? "

Double Ignorance.....poor lady, all she wanted was to be heard not yelled at...

If I was in her place I would have started shouted a barrage of fuck words at them.

It's safe to say that we all want health-care reform.
We all just disagree with how we should go about doing that.

It's important to recognize that most of these town hall discussions are very civil and people are treating each other respectably. But that doesn't make for "good television" (current covered this in a humorous way on last weeks Infomania).

Spreading these videos around doesn't help anything. You are discouraging people on both sides of the issue from showing up. Watching videos like these on the news (along with some unnecessary commentary) just further polarizes people on the issue.

This NEWS REPORTER IS A REAL ONE!
This is sick people booing a woman thats in a wheelchair. Then that crazy eye woman talking about the knock on the door by the death panel WTF!

If you are on Medi-care you are using SOCIALIZED medicine......You stupid PUTTS.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, He, he, he, good grief....I never thought that you guys were this messed up. Seriously people, I live in Europe, where we have both private and public health care , and guess what, apart from the expected few hecklers, everyone is very happy with the system. What the hell are Americans freaking out about???? What Obama is trying to do is good for the USA.
If the general Amarican public can't see that and agree then I guess it's time to rethink if the UNITED STATES should stay united.

what;no guns?

Here in America, we might shout her down and be mean, but on the Achille Lauro hijacked ship, the Arab Moslem fundamentalists took Mr. Leon Klinghoffer who was also bound in his wheelchair, and threw him into the Atlantic and drowned him.
The fundamentalists don't believe in shouting people down. You will never get the virgins in ala's sex heaven for shouting down someone. You have to murder people.

the stupidity of the average American never ceases to Amaze me. we are a nation that is seemingly populated by uneducated loudmouth rednecks manipulated by greedy selfish hedonistic businessmen.

Education is the key to all of our problems. If the people were only educated on the issues and took the time to learn about them, we would be alot better off.

There can be no liberty without education. Knowledge is power.

I made the mistake of being born in NJ and now I think I am just staying for the pizza.

this is just bonkers. the overwhelming majority of the country wants healthcare reform. thats one reason obama got elected.

Brilliant video. Everyone should watch it.

Loved this exchange:

"This is a handicapped woman who is afraid she'll lose her home because of medical bills."

(long pause as anti-Obama hysteric ponders that statement)

"Well, I don't know why a woman in a wheelchair should have more rights than me!"

And there it is. The unspoken obsessive/irrational fear ppeople have that "others" are going to "steal" from them if the system is reformed.

The ill woman (who didn't become sick through "sin" as most Republicans believe is how people get sick) was merely pointing out that being ill -- and being ill through no fault of her own -- shouldn't result in a choice between bankruptcy/homelessness and staying alive.

In the Republican mind this common sense observation that illness shouldn't mean instantly poverty somehow translates into "We're all going to die! Death Panels! These welfare parasites are going to tax my paycheck at a 99 percent tax rate! They are all welfare bums and minorities and drug addicts! Aarrgghhhh! Death to Obama!"

You cannot reason with people that irrational and that hysterical.

Love the bug eyed fear monger. It seems soooo much scarier with a female version of Uncle Fester saying it.

The people yelling the loudest are usually the ones who have no anchor in facts.

Hate to say it...but they get most of their information from Fox and Limbaugh, and their information is almost always wrong.

Damn Jackals!

no shortage of ignorance in this country...

or arrogance

my family, just like every other white american's family, came here because there own homeland was screwed up. if this is what being an american is nowadays i'm going back to europe.

What happened to decent Americans? We're all supposed to have an equal voice in our govt. It was this woman's turn to speak her mind to her representative, and she gets shouted down by people who disagree with her. This isn't how democracy works people. The ones who think Obama is facsist for trying to expand access to health care are the ones that are behaving most like fascists when they shout down and intimidate people with opposing views.