Residents raise their voices on health care More than 400 protesters urge government to stop meddlin

[jayschool]

Source: Fort Collins (Colo.) Coloradoan

More than 400 protesters marched down College Avenue on Wednesday afternoon with one message for Congress: Keep government's hands out of the health-care system.

Carrying banners assailing President Barack Obama's health-care plan and chanting "'Nobama,' no way," the marchers rallied on the east side of College Avenue, then marched through Old Town to confront Democratic Rep. Betsy Markey's staff about her views on a health-care reform bill being debated in Congress.

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Sitting in his Toyota Prius in the Safeway parking lot adjacent to the rally, Medicare recipient and University of Northern Colorado finance professor Junius Peake said nobody’s health care should have to be bankrolled by tax dollars.

The millions of uninsured Americans should find jobs, he said, and until then, they can’t all get health care because there wouldn’t be enough doctors for everyone if the uninsured were able to obtain health care through public means.

Read more: http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20090730/NEWS01/907300333&referrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL

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Lovely.

Other than the fact the government already has its hands in health, the comment by the UNC professor is at the heart of the Right's belief system: the U.S. is a meritocracy whose government shouldn't be in the business of protecting the unworthy from the ravages of the world.

Savage and brutal, we are. Not like those pussy Europeans, eh?

[bkkyosemite]

1. We need to take to the streets..Single Payer now!!!

The jerk is on Medicare...IDIOT!!!

[Kablooie]

4. Damn it Yes! He has to drop his free Medicare and pay $2000 a month like the rest of us!

[bkkyosemite]

13. Lol I'm on Medicare...what a Jerk.........doesn't even know he is on a gov. program.

[Lasher]

2. This is satire, right?

More than 400 protesters? There were more people in line ahead of me the last time I went to a movie. Medicare recipient said nobody’s health care should have to be bankrolled by tax dollars? And this from a finance professor?

[jayschool]

3. Exactly

1. Fort Collins is a city of nearly 150,000 people, and Larimer County is at 250,000, so 400 people is a drop.

2. I attended a health care forum in April at CSU (in Fort Collins) at which 500 people crammed an auditorium on campus to hear T.R. Reid and plead for a single-payer system. Two other speeches by Reid drew the same single-payer activists. No similar coverage of their desires by the Coloradoan, a Gannett-owned newspaper.

3. And the guy's a professor at the University of Northern Colorado. 'Nuf said.

[Libertas1776]

5. You know

sometimes I am kind of turned off by the idea of single payer or even public option if it means covering totally ungrateful ass wipes like these. As far as these numb skulls are concerned, Big government when it wants to spy on you, imprison you, wage wars and kill the brown man (formerly the yellow man) = Good. Big government that wants to aid you in your time of need, give you free health care, and improve your quality of life = BAD BAD BAD! And you know that the minute they get it, you'll be hard pressed to pry it from their cold dead fingers. They may hate the gub'mint, but they sure love their social security and medicare. Hypocrites.

[fasttense]

6. There were dueling rallies.

Not just anti-health-care protesters, there were also many pro-health-care protesters across the street. If you look at the video at the link, it shows people from both sides of the issue.

Why did this reporter decide to focus mostly on the anti-health-care idiots? I suspect it is because he is a Repub.

So does that supposed 400 estimate include both groups? Where did the reporter get his estimate? Was it his count? Can we trust his count when he clearly prefers the anti-health-care idiots?

[bkkyosemite]

14. We probably had 395 on our side and they had 5 so they had to borrow from the other side LOL

[fascisthunter]

7. you don't want a public option because you'd rather see people die

just say it you freaks!

[LynnTheDem]

8. "The millions of uninsured Americans should find jobs" ..."there wouldn’t be enough doctors" ...

The stupidity is amazing.

Jaw dropping.

Not to mention the greedy "fuck you" attitude.

THIS is America the "great"???!

[BradXXX]

9. Medicare recipient says, "nobody’s health care should have to be bankrolled by tax dollars."

AMAZING.

You can't make this stuff up.

[NJCher]

10. Headline misleading

In the video that accompanies the story you can clearly see single-payer advocates out there but where is it mentioned in the story? It's not, other than "nuanced." Then they quote the finance professor, who is not at all illustrative of "nuanced."

The bias of the American press is galling.



Cher

[Telly Savalas]

16. Then why did they bother ot call attention to the fact that the professor

is a Medicare recipient?

[lephty]

11. Read Krugman's article today in NY Times

It starts like this ....

<Qoute>
At a recent town hall meeting, a man stood up and told Representative Bob Inglis to “keep your government hands off my Medicare.”
</Quote>

Priceless.

[damntexdem]

12. Don't let the feds get their hands on Medicare!

Keep the governments from controlling Medicaid.

Feds, hands off VA!

And most important of all: no public moneys for congressional health care coverage! ;-)

[Critters2]

15. Right! Let's make it so these people can't use medicare! nt

[Robb]

17. Pic:

:D

[Doremus]

18. And yet there was a rally with thousands of PRO-healthcare reformers in attendance and not one word.

[MadMaddie]

19. You know what if these people feel this way fine...let's demand

that they give up their social security (gov run) and their medicare. This is ridiculous...they bite the hand that takes care of them.