rssDean and 500 Followers March for Health Care Reform
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 at 1:02 pm
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No one will be claiming a turnout of two million, but Howard Dean and company managed to draw a healthy crowd for their health care rally today in Washington’s Dupont Circle.
About 500 people turned out this morning to push for health care reform and stand up against health insurance companies. The message of the rally? Health insurance companies and reform opponents should stop being greedy and help insure the millions of people who need health care. Organized by Health Care for America Now, a national grassroots campaign fighting for affordable health care, the protest couldn’t attract the thousands that some anti-health care protests have drawn, but it still managed to assemble one of the larger crowds of pro-health care rallies.
Speakers, including Dean, the former governor of Vermont and founder of Democracy for America, and Hilary Shelton, director of the NAACP’s Washington bureau, called attention to the need for demanding immediate health care reform.
Members of the dozens of labor unions and community organizations participating in the rally held signs reading “Stop Corporate Lobbyists,” “enough greed and selfishness” and “I kill for profit,” among many others.
“I’m here for my son,” said Skip Roberts, a Service Employees International Union member from D.C. who held a sign with the “criminal record” of Well Point CEO Angela Braly. Roberts’ son, who’s too old to be on his parents’ plan, had just started a new job and doesn’t get benefits for three months. And with asthma as a pre-existing condition for his son, Roberts said insurance prices are outrageous.
Near the end of the short rally at the circle, an organizer called on the crowd to march down M Street to the Ritz-Carlton where they would “issue warrants of arrests” of health insurance lobbyists and CEOs. America’s Health Insurance Plans, a national association representing about 1,300 health insurance companies, is currently holding a conference at the hotel. About 1,000 more people were meeting at the Ritz for a speaking program and to protest.
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Comment posted March 9, 2010 @ 6:13 pm
Barack obama is inciting violence against American citizens.
Comment posted March 9, 2010 @ 6:20 pm
Well I think it's actually Glenn Beck who does a good job of that Mass “GOP” GUY.
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Comment posted March 9, 2010 @ 7:03 pm
Is it the insurance companies fault that healthcare is not affordable? They are the ones being billed by hospitals and doctors. Shouldn't we focus on ways of reducing the cost of healthcare without compromising quality? When these law makers in charge won't even consider issues like malpractice reform (defensive medicine is very expensive), you have to wonder who's side are they really on.
Do they really care about American people or is going after the insurance company just another bully powergrab?
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Comment posted March 9, 2010 @ 7:35 pm
Hear for yourself — in Howard Dean’s own words — how he wants Socialism in America: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UScQ1lqCSmQ
Comment posted March 9, 2010 @ 7:37 pm
Isn't it a bit early in the day to be that drunk?
Comment posted March 9, 2010 @ 7:42 pm
How much money (profit) do insurance companies not spend treating people?
Do you know the actual percentage of healthcare dollars that go to malpractice, be it awards or insurance?
Now, which is larger?
Comment posted March 9, 2010 @ 7:43 pm
You and massgopguy need to lay off the sauce a little…
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Comment posted March 9, 2010 @ 8:13 pm
PEOPLE SHOULD REALIZE THE REASON PEOPLE ARE FIGHTING OVER HEALTHCARE IS BECAUSE THE SYSTEM IS BROKEN HEALTH CARE IS BEING RATIONED. THE FIGHT WILL NOT STOP UNTIL IT IS FIXED THE PARTY OF NO WILL NOT FIX IT.
Comment posted March 9, 2010 @ 8:16 pm
Cuckoo! Cuckoo! I hear the sound of crazy.
Obama hasn't done a frigging thing right yet.
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Comment posted March 10, 2010 @ 12:36 am
500 people? I didn't know there were that many group homes in the area.
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Comment posted March 10, 2010 @ 5:32 am
The whole framework of the debate is in error. Health is not a commodity that can be dispensed by government, though they are good at harming or killing people. Meanwhile the false choice of having health dispensed from big businesses or the government that is in bad with them every night is no choice at all. The reform that is needed is to rein in the reckless overuse of drugs in healthy people to treat lab values, the use of dangerous and unproven vaccines for everything under the sun, the screening tests such as whole body CT scans “virtual physicals” which expose the recipient to an amount of radiation similar to that of Hiroshima atomic bomb survivors 1 1/2 miles from the blast. The last thing we need is more of such “healthcare” least of all from a government that could care less about the health and lives of its citizens. But it must be a powertrip for bureaucrats to try and meddle in the most private details of the citizens.
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Comment posted March 10, 2010 @ 9:55 am
While health is wealth most of our people no good health and it is the reality that they have no wealth to keep health well. To keep good health we also need wealth. Health is wealth? Not always that!
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Comment posted March 10, 2010 @ 6:18 pm
I want the truth about how many marchers (protestors) were actually there. This article says “500″…other articles have stated “dozens”…CNN states “more than 1,000″ while others state “thousands” were there. Are you all blind or what? There is definitely a huge difference between “dozens” and “thousands” so what was the reality?
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Comment posted March 11, 2010 @ 12:18 am
I want the truth about how many marchers (protestors) were actually there. This article says “500″…other articles have stated “dozens”…CNN states “more than 1,000″ while others state “thousands” were there. Are you all blind or what? There is definitely a huge difference between “dozens” and “thousands” so what was the reality?
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Comment posted March 13, 2010 @ 12:36 pm
Out of 500, how many were SEIU? Well, that didn't take long to find out. Sounds like all of them. That certainly isn't 'healthy' and doesn't even qualify for astroturf.
Comment posted March 14, 2010 @ 1:40 am
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Comment posted March 14, 2010 @ 1:41 am
HELP SEND RUSH LIMBAUGH TO COSTA RICA AND MOVE HEALTHCARE FROM THE HINTERLANDS OF GLENNBECKISTAN AND RUSHLIMBAUGHSTADHT
Tell Republican Obstructionists and DINO’s that mainstream conservatives support healthcare reform now. The issue of Tort reform is moot. In Texas where there are the most stringent Tort Reform laws, so-called defensive diagnostic tests are on the rise. Insurance rates have increased with no end in sight, and Texas has 6 million uninsured middle class working Americans.
Tell Republican and DINO Congressmen that we want negligent errors by Doctors decreased. Innocent Americans who go to Americas hospitals for treatment should not be limited in judicial recourse due to doctors' errors. Most doctor errors are preventative: washing hands to prevent infections. All liability cases are brought to court in the most severe circumstances such as operating on the wrong side of the patients' body. In Congressman John Murtha's case, it was a snip of his intestines during a routine bladder surgery that cost him his life. Should his family be prohibited from financial recourse due to so called tort reform?
I oppose my party on this issue because I have seen my insurance rates go from a deductible of $1200 in 2006 to $3600 in 2010. I have never filed a medical claim. That is why I urge our silent majority of conservatives to let Congress know that we are CONSERVATIVES FOR HEALTHCARE REFORM NOW!
CALL ALL THE SENATORS IF YOU ARE TIRED OF RISING INSURANCE RATES.
Daniel Akaka, Hawaii (HI) 202-224-6361
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Comment posted March 25, 2010 @ 10:48 am
The last thing we need is more of such “health care” least of all from a government that could care less about the health and lives of its citizens.
Comment posted September 22, 2010 @ 6:47 pm
Tell Republican and DINO Congressmen that we want negligent errors by Doctors decreased. Innocent Americans who go to Americas hospitals for treatment should not be limited in judicial recourse due to doctors' errors. Most doctor errors are preventative: washing hands to prevent infections. All liability cases are brought to court in the most severe circumstances such as operating on the wrong side of the patients' body. In Congressman John Murtha's case, it was a snip of his intestines during a routine bladder surgery that cost him his life. Should his family be prohibited from financial recourse due to so called tort reform?
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