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Another Hampton Roads congressman has stepped forward to schedule open meetings on the health care overhaul.
U.S. Rep. Rob Wittman, a Republican from Westmoreland County, announced Thursday that he'll hold forums Monday at Christopher Newport University's Ferguson Center for the Arts in Newport News and Tuesday at the University of Mary Washington's Dodd Auditorium in Fredericksburg. The sessions will run from 6 to 8 p.m.
U.S. Rep. Bobby Scott said Wednesday that he will host a public forum in Newport News on Tuesday.
These sessions will be the first, and possibly only, town hall meetings on health care held in the area by any of Hampton Roads' federal legislators. Similar forums around the country have sometimes drawn angry crowds and been disrupted by outbursts. Most local members of Congress have relied on conference calls, meetings with smaller groups or correspondence to communicate with constituents on the issue.
Scott's Tuesday gathering is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Downing-Gross Cultural Arts Center, at 2410 Wickham Ave. A second forum is scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday in Richmond at the General Assembly Building, in Senate Room A, at 910 Capitol St.
Scott's congressional district includes Portsmouth and parts of Norfolk and extends up to Richmond. Wittman's stretches from Newport News to Fauquier and Prince William counties.
Scott has been a proponent of establishing a government-option health care plan to compete with private insurers. He has been supportive of the House bill, which would require everyone to obtain health insurance, require most employers to provide it, and use a combination of shifts in federal funds and new taxes on wealthy Americans to pay the extra cost of insuring poor people.
Congress is expected to continue deliberation on health care when it returns from a monthlong recess Sept. 8.
Bill Bartel, (757) 446-2398, bill.bartel@pilotonline.com
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nothing like rose tinted glasses
Kudos To Our Congressmen And Women
Submitted by mapatty on Thu, 08/27/2009 at 5:05 pm.
"Kudos to our congressmen and women who support public option. It will bring us closer to the insurance they get.How can you knock that?"
hey mapatty.....ever wonder why they just didn't let the masses join their plan? You find no hypocrisy in the fact that you get to pay for their plan but not join? You find no hypocrisy they are going to exempt themselves from what they are going to offer you under their Public Option?
cont. from below
The basic attitude form which such activity arises, we call -- to distinguish it from egoism and selfishness -- idealism. By this we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.” Adolf Hitler speaking at Bueckeburg, Oct. 7, 1933; The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, 1922-39, ed.
“Communism and fascism or Nazism, although poles apart in their intellectual content, are similar in this, that both have emotional appeal to the type of personality that takes pleasure in being submerged in a mass movement and submitting to superior authority. James A. C. Brown
"The goal of socialism is communism." Vladimir Lenin
If you still don't see socialism, nazism, fascism, and communism as basically the same philophosy then I pity your self-enslavement; I don't have to accept it for myself and I will fight with my vote to keep America free.
Civics lesson
Submitted by chunkymonkey on Thu, 08/27/2009 at 6:40 am.
Last week we were heading towards fascism. Now were heading towards socialism...and then communism? What's next: "Pals-o'-terrorism"? Would somebody PLEASE make their mind?
It is not a matter of making up the mind. It is self explanatory for anyone who ever had a real civics class.
Socialism and Fascism are two sides of the same coin. Both systems believe that the state should have primary control of all aspects of the citizen’s lives because the bureaucrats know best how to regulate all capital, commodities, means of production, land, and labor.
“It is thus necessary that the individual should finally come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of his nation; that the position of the individual ego is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole...that above all the unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual....This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise for every truly human culture....The basic attitu
Kudos To Our Congressmen And Women
Kudos to our congressmen and women who support public option. It will bring us closer to the insurance they get.How can you knock that?
Put up or shut up
I say we require all registered Democrats to be covered by Obamacare complete with "death panels," forced abortions, rationed care and full coverage for illegal immigrants (and the other outrageous fallacies floating around out there) and all registered Republicans (including those on Medicare, Tricare and VA) to purchase health insurance on the private market with no government assistance in negotatiating coverage, premiums, or the cost of prescription drugs. Registered independents will be required to choose one or the other. Those Republicans who don't die from a preexisting condition, which their friends in the insurance industry won't cover, will be rushing to the registrar's office a year from now to change party affiliation.
RE
hate to tell you there sparky but i payed for my va health insur with 13 oversea deployments and over 20 years of service. MY BILL IS MORE THEN PAID IN FULL.
Your
socialized government-run health care is paid for by the taxpayers, who are grateful for your service to your country.
Sorry but it is not..
"socialized government-run health care". It is a DOD paid for by DOD system of "military" doctors employed by the "military" to provide medical service to the "military" who pay their way by putting their butt on the line for the "common defense". Military have to be in optimum medical condition to defend your "rights" to write tripe. Far far far from socialized medicine, thank you.
Me 2
Though your 13 deployments top mine. The point being government-mediated health care provides decent health care at a reasonable price. I just don't understand the argument that that would be a bad thing for people who cannot afford health insurance under the current system.
This will be interesting
Wonder if gun-toting "true" Americans will show up at this rally. Its funny because in their mind they think they are accomplishing someting by screaming at rallys but to me they look like a bunch of country fools