Senator Kerry held a lively, packed “town hall,” meeting tonight, mostly on health reform.
We live-tweeted. Follow us here: twitter.com/hcfa
A Blue Mass Group blogger live-blogged, here
Highlight (from BMG blogger):
Question from “an artist and an old-time feminist”
You say there’s a moral imperative, but it’s not in the constitution. This grows big government and concentrates power among an elite, when in history has this ended well?I’m 66, and I’m a big hypocrite because I’m on Medicare. You haven’t warned us about the debt to future generations who are not here to speak?
[Senator Kerry] – This is an important question. People are concerned for many reasons. Look at the bills – this doesn’t grow government power. People are offered more choice under this plan. If you like what you have, you can keep it…
You talk about big government, but today you have big corporations…. (deafening applause)
The fact is that I don’t know anywhere that involves health care… people getting sick through no fault of their own, do we want to live in a country where people have to go bankrupt to get health care?
Don’t want to mix politics and religion in an in appropriate way…. Nothing in any religion suggests, that when you help the sick, you should ask them “What insurance do you have?”
This is not a constitutional issue, this is a moral issue.
