Comedy | August 12, 2009 | 13 comments

Shadegg’s Health Care Town Hall Draws Hundreds

source: http://www.tangle.com/view_video.php?viewkey=3b530d3456d908233ba5

Kylsport
BTW, I won't be uploading anymore videos to youtube. They have a stupid 10 minute max rule, which encouraged me to upload it to tangle.com.
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On Saturday, August 8, 2009, Congressman John Shadegg (AZ-03) hosted a town hall meeting on health care reform at the Arcadia Neighborhood Learning Center in Scottsdale , Arizona . The purpose of the forum was to discuss H.R. 3200, health care legislation being considered by the U.S. House of Representatives, and to receive feedback on the bill from Arizonans.

Many were headed to a town hall featuring Congressman John Shadegg scheduled to start at 11 a.m. at the Arcadia Neighborhood Learning Center , 4330 N. 62nd St .

Shadegg had one word for the crowd that crammed into the building with an occupancy sign that stated the facility topped out at 201 bodies.

“Wow,” he said. “We didn’t expect this big of a crowd.”

Nearly twice the amount of the occupancy limit had crammed in for the standing-room-only town hall.

Shadegg told the crowd that he had his own thoughts for a better health care plan. He said of the current bill, “It was originally 800 pages, then 1017, then 1026 — and yes, I have read it.”

As the crowd responded to him with a roar and applauds, Shadegg encouraged the protestors to visit his Web site, http://johnshadegg.house.gov/, to learn more about his plan.

After all, Shadegg said, the point of the town hall was for him to hear what others thought about the current health care bill.

Someone shouted from the audience: “Ban it; It’s fishy!”

Shadegg replied with a broad smile: “Somebody said 'it’s fishy.”

The salt-and-pepper haired politician removed his blazer, loosened his tie, and directed that two microphones get passed around the room for comments.

One audience member simply fired off a charge to Shadegg: “Fight!”
Shadegg agreed, “You have my personal promise that I will fight against this bill with every ounce of strength I have.”

After a few more questions from the overflowing crowd, the Scottsdale Fire Department sent a truck to the site, where exits were dangerously blocked by bodies crushing to enter the town hall.

Dr. Jennifer Weil of the Indian Health Service sat against a wall outside the town hall, resting on the ground in the shade. She scrambled to her feet as the crowd continued to press in for the town hall.

“I think I’m the only liberal here,” said the Phoenix-based doctor. Weil said she worked for a government program administering free health care to American Indians.

"Indians are the only ones born in this country with the right to free health care because of treaties with the federal government that go far back for many years,” Weil said. “Now I’m not saying that every American should have the same thing, but I am proud to be a part of a program that provides free medical care.”

Weil said, as far as she could tell, it was she and she alone who was standing in support of the current health care plan at that particular time, outside of the crowded town hall.

“I do believe all people deserve health care,” she said.

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13 comments // Shadegg’s Health Care Town Hall Draws Hundreds

  • Rex_L
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      Rex_L  

    • Just over half of the $2 trillion of health care costs in the US each year is due to wasteful practices, according to findings. The health care costs that are indicated to be wasteful are behavioral, clinical, and procedural – what that means is that behavioral patterns could be addressed by someone other than a doctor, clinics order unnecessary tests, and health insurance companies might be padding their bills. The biggest cause of people needing an extra cash advance for medical care is overtesting – unnecessary procedures so the physician can cover himself legally, or just gouge patients for cash. Doctors padding bills – no wonder health care costs drive people to needing a personal loan for a simple check up.

    • 3 years ago
  • kennymotown
  • kennymotown
  • Kylsport
  • kennymotown
  • Kylsport
  • good_stuff
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      good_stuff  

    • Funny, his website has 2 paragraphs about his "plan", but I cant actually find the plan itself. I wanted to see the difference, but I guess I will just have to take his word on it.

    • 3 years ago
  • Kylsport
  • Kylsport
  • nursediesel
  • nursediesel
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      nursediesel  

    • Yeah, the Indians get excellent health care. Just ask one of those on the reservation. And ask what kind of food is provided in their government run groceries stores. The kind of food the diabatic Indians aren't supposed to eat.
      And fire wter, well the state stores are happy.

    • 3 years ago
  • curtisreed
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      curtisreed  

    • This is amazing:
      "Dr. Jennifer Weil of the Indian Health Service sat against a wall outside the town hall, resting on the ground in the shade. She scrambled to her feet as the crowd continued to press in for the town hall.
      "Indians are the only ones born in this country with the right to free health care because of treaties with the federal government that go far back for many years,” Weil said. “Now I’m not saying that every American should have the same thing, but I am proud to be a part of a program that provides free medical care.” "

      To have someone from that organization propose that this same FAILURE be perpetrated on the rest of the country is astounding. The Federal Govt has had a “trust responsibility to provide health care for American Indians and Alaska Natives, {and yet} the Indian Health Service is substantially underfunded and understaffed.”
      http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/353/18/1881

      There is no shortage of documentation supporting the allegation that our federal government has seriously underserved our Native Americans.
      http://www.commonwealthfund.org/usr_doc/roubideaux_qualityhltcare_aians_756.pdf

      To quote an article by Tim Giago, an Oglala Lakota who recently wrote "How Will Universal Health Care Affect Native Americans?":

      "Those Americans opposed to it compare it to Canada's or Britain's health care systems, which they say are nothing but socialized medicine. The Indian Health Care system, deemed a "historic failure" by Sebelius, has also been labeled as socialized medicine, and the fact that she would label it as a failure does not place much faith in an even larger universal health care system. It just seems that every time the federal government takes total control over anything, failure is almost assured. Watch out General Motors."

      He ends his article: "If you think the government can solve all of our problems ask an Indian."

    • 3 years ago
  • allIknowis
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