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Health Care Town Meetings
August 11, 2009
President Obama told a New Hampshire town meeting on Tuesday that he welcomed vigorous debate over health care reform, but he added that opponents are "trying to scare the heck out of folks, and they'll create boogey men out there that just aren't real." Added the president, “Where we do disagree, let's disagree over things that are real, not these wild misrepresentations that bear no resemblance to anything that has actually been proposed." Senator Bernie Sanders also spoke out about the need for health care reform. “The issue is whether we are going to have legislation that addresses the very serious crisis facing the American people,” he told MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann. “If we do not get our act together in terms of health care, if we don’t join the rest of the world in guaranteeing health care to all people, if we don’t control costs, it will be devastating not only to people in an individual way, but it’ll be devastating to the economy of our country.”
To watch Senator Sanders on “Countdown with Keith Olbermann,” click here.
For information on upcoming town meetings in Vermont, click here.
To read an interview with the Republican senator who sponsored a proposal other Republicans call “death panels,” click here.
For a reality check on health reform, click here.
