Updated & Live: Andrews talks Healthcare at the Courier Post and later the Gloucester County Times

by: Jason Springer

Thu Sep 03, 2009 at 09:10:00 AM EDT

Update: Here is the video live of the Gloucester County Times:

We removed the video from the Courier following the the discussion.

Congressman Rob Andrews is live now at the Courier Post talking about healthcare from 9am-10am. And then later, from the Gloucester County Times:

Representative Rob Andrews, D - 1st Dist, of Haddon Heights, will be bringing the heated debate on health care reform to the Gloucester County Times' own round table Citizens Forum on Thursday, Sept. 3, at 12:30 p.m. and South Jersey Online will be broadcasting the event live, as it happens.
In real-time, our readers will be able to communicate online with other residents as the congressman addresses a dozen representatives from the county - real people with varying opinions - about their concerns.
We'll have live video and a chat room up and running during the event, so be sure to join us and check out this exclusive one-on-one between Andrews and the residents of Gloucester County. Readers from anywhere and everywhere are encouraged to join us online for live talk and real-time feedback.
Please note: This is a closed session meeting. The public is welcome and encouraged to join us online and submit their questions for discussion and presentation, but a physical presence at the meeting is impossible in the space available. Members of the community will not be able to participate in person at this event and will be turned away.

If you want to see what the Congressman has to say, you can watch live now and then submit a question, to follow along at 12:30.

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Updated & Live: Andrews talks Healthcare at the Courier Post and later the Gloucester County Times | 3 comments

He just got the Glenn Beck-approved talking point: (0.00 / 0)

"There's nothing in the Constitution that guarantees healthcare."

Like these people care about the "It's just a Piece of Paper" Constitution during the Bush years.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

by: Jersey Shore John @ Thu Sep 03, 2009 at 16:39:01 PM UTC

How TeaBaggers suddenly casting themselves as Health Nuts? (4.00 / 2)

Another question about people who don't "take care of themselves" and how they are somehow abusing TeaBaggers' insurance?

In all the pictures of TeaBaggers I've ever seen, "healthy lifestyle" is not the phrase that comes to mind.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

by: Jersey Shore John @ Thu Sep 03, 2009 at 16:56:11 PM UTC

Amost a Waste.... (0.00 / 0)

...it's great that Andrews is allowed to actually talk without the yelling and screaming....but virtually ALL the questions refer to fears and negative attitudes towards reform in general and a "public option" in particular.

Andrews' description of the PO is so weak that it would be bound to fail as the hospitals and insurance companies could easily sabotage it.

Why wasn't there at least ONE representative from a progressive constituency?

MOST folks want reform.

No one is asking Andrews about the billion dollar fear and smear swiftboating campaign paid for by the health insurance industry and it's corporate and ideological cronies...and he's not volunteering any information on why people are now so afraid of reform.

This issue isn't going away. If all the interests that are making out like bandits now are allowed to keep on doing it........it will just get worse and the nation will be bankrupted.

Better no bill at all than one which will subsidize the insurance industry AND then allow the Fux News people to blame the Democrats for the failed disastrous boondoggle that will result. In that scenario the people screwing us get top keep on doing it with a government subsidy AND then they get to blame the government for the failure.

The Andrews PO sounds like a fucking poverty program that would only appeal to desperate people not quite destitute enough to qualify for Medicaid.

The lady who works for a law firm who brags about he "Cadillac" coverage clearly wants nothing to change. What she doesn't get is that if she loses her job...and one of her two kids gets seriously sick...she's fucked.

No one is really "insured" and secure under the current system.....most folks have the ILLUSION of insurance and security and it works because at any given time most of us aren't seriously ill.....so the racket continues...and Andrews smooth talk doesn't address the essence of the con job that the health insurance industry is running on us, they provide NO service. They provide NO medical care! They are a TOTALLY parasitic business model and don't deserve one penny in subsidies.

A real Public Option would simply be single payer for those that choose it. Period.

Real single payer, HR676, wold be better than the lady's "Cadillac" plan in that there would be no deductibles, no copays, dental, vision, portability and a universal choice of any doctor or hospital.

Do some reading folks.

by: Nick Lento @ Thu Sep 03, 2009 at 18:19:54 PM UTC