BCT news article – 10/17/09

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Crowd gets vocal at town hall meeting on health care; Bill Vidonic; Beaver County Times; October 17, 2009.

The only comment I have is about the following segment at the end of the article.

“As Altmire was ending his session in Ambridge around 1 p.m. Saturday, nearly 40 people in support of House Resolution 676, a measure that would create a nonprofit single-payer health-care system, braved a chilly rain for a rally in front of the Beaver County Courthouse.”

[RWC] “[B]raved a chilly rain?” Hmm, care to guess Mr. Vidonic’s position on this issue? If you have any doubts, keep reading.

“The rally was called “Health Care, Not Warfare” and was sponsored by several groups, including Steelworkers Organization of Active Retirees, Beaver County Peace Links and the Western Pennsylvania Coalition for Single Payer Healthcare.

“Additional information about local and national efforts in health-care reform is available at:

“www.beavercountyblue.org

“www.consumerhealthcoalition.org

“www.pdamerica.org

“www.healthcare.barackobama.com”

You probably won’t be surprised to find all these links are for organizations that support a government-run healthcare monopoly, and three of the four are for purely leftist political organizations that merely support a government-run healthcare monopoly along with their other political causes. Remember, though, this was supposed to be a “news” article. Are we to believe there are no efforts to reform healthcare that don’t involve a government-run healthcare monopoly? I guess I shouldn’t be surprised at anything the Times does, but this is pretty bad. As I’ve mentioned before, if you believe opinions are limited to the op-ed pages of a newspaper, you aren’t paying attention.

Please read my paper entitled “Healthcare.”