Barack Obama faces the biggest crisis of his presidency as seething opposition, stoked by alarmist rumours and fear of rationed healthcare, threatens to sweep away the cornerstone of his political agenda.
America’s biggest group representing older people accused him yesterday of falsely claiming their support, and Democratic congressmen who were trying to sell the health Bill to constituents were drowned out by protesters.
Veteran observers said that they had not seen gatherings as big as those flocking to the town hall-style meetings in August, usually the quietest month of the year, for a generation.
At a meeting on Tuesday night Claire McCaskill, a Democratic Senator, asked her constituents in Missouri: “You don’t trust me?” “No,” came back the reply in unison.
So many are packing the halls that the numbers of voters called to speak have had to be limited. The cameras have captured middle-aged mothers and the elderly scuffling with security guards. “If they don’t let us vent our frustrations out \, they will have a revolution,” a woman warned at Ms McCaskill’s meeting in Hillsboro.
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Updates:
1:07 pm EDT, August 13th, 2009 — U.K. Hits Back at U.S. Health Reform ‘Untruths’
2:28 pm EDT, August 13th, 2009 — The truth hurts
3:15 pm EDT, August 13th, 2009 – Healthcare E-Mails Overload House Web Site
One of the topics causing great concern is the electronic medical records, to be kept in Washington, and accessed by people across the country. Think of all the problems with the no fly rule, and how many have been refused because of a misspelt name or birthday or other info on a person. Or people with the same name or birthdate. Garbage in, garbage out, is a common computer problem. These records are supposed to cut costs as they will tell if x test or procedure was ever done. But, will it tell when said test was done, have conditions changed and they should be done again.
Electronic records for each area works, but for the whole country-no.
Think of all the phone books in the USA being put in one data base.
Well, well, well… Average citizens protesting against Obamacare and declaring they don’t trust their elected officials. They must all be sociopaths!! Everyone knows government is the source of all solutions so they should just shut their mouths and pay their damn taxes!
Naaaaaaw, I’m pretty sure “average citizens” (meaning the average citizen with the time and motivation to attend a tea party) are quite happy living in “Brazil with a faint hope clause”. Government only stops them from holding the social order, and boy has it gotten in the way of the people’s will over the last 100 years with its meddlesome changes. They should consider getting rid of their government as it stands and revert to the Scottish highlands model.