Dingell forum on health care reforms gets raucous

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U.S. Rep. John Dingell was greeted with jeers and cheers today as he tried to explain why changing the nation’s health care system — as he has advocated for more than a half-century in Congress — makes sense.

Dingell, 81, told a health care forum he sponsored in Romulus that the legislation won’t pay for abortions, as some protesters said it would.


“There will be no payment of taxpayer funds for abortion,” he said.


As Dingell tried to begin the forum, Mike Sola, of Milan, interrupted the congressman repeatedly as he pushed his son, Scott, in a wheelchair, to the podium. He said proposed changes wouldn’t help Scott and called Dingell a fraud.


Even before the town hall began in Romulus, opponents of President Barack Obama’s health plan engaged supporters.


“You may be dead in five years,” Val Butsicaris, 60, of Taylor, shouted. “They may euthanize you.”


She referred to concerns of government rationing of care for the elderly.


Mel Hoffer, 67, of Monroe, a retired Ford Motor Co. employee, said retired autoworkers have no guarantees.


“We may need something to fall back on,” he said.


Earlier in Troy, about 200 people gathered outside the office of U.S. Rep. Gary Peters to let him know they don’t like Obama’s health care plan.


http://freep.com/article/20090806/NEWS15/90806087/Dingell-forum-on-health-care-reforms-gets-raucous

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1. Joe Madison suggested

yesterday on his radio program that if the lunatic fringe want to "play that game", then perhaps he might consider calling Minister Louis Farrakhan and requesting that he dispatch the Fruit of Islam to stand outside town halls to keep the peace! :applause:

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2. Sounds like a damned good plan, to me!! But you know what

will be the resulting meme. "I knew that n***er was a MusliN!! We kept trying to tell McCain!!!" LOL!!:rofl:

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3. You know it!

That would be a mess!

Shameful that the main folks in need of health care reform are shouting it down because they are racist idiots!