Remember the Medicare Catastrophic Care Fiasco?

[Joe Bacon]

Once people get their bills for higher premiums and taxes to pay for this hunk of corporate welfare OR they get the love letter from their employer terminating their coverage, will we see a repeat of this?

Congressman Dan Rostenkowski, one of the most powerful politicians in the United States, was booed and chased down a Chicago street Thursday morning by a group of senior citizens after he refused to talk with them about federal health insurance. Shouting "Coward," "Recall" and "Impeach," about 50 people followed the chairman of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee up Milwaukee Avenue after he left a meeting in the auditorium of the Copernicus Center, 3106 N. Milwaukee Ave., in the heart of his 8th Congressional District on the city's Northwest Side.
Eventually, the 6-foot-4-inch Rostenkowski cut through a gas station, broke into a sprint and escaped into his car, which minutes earlier had one of the elderly protesters, Leona Kozien, draped over the hood. Kozien, one of more than 100 senior citizens who attended the gathering, said she had hoped to talk to Rostenkowski, her congressman, at the meeting.
But Rostenkowski clearly did not want to talk with her, or any of the others who had come to tell their complaints about the high cost of federal catastrophic health insurance. "These people don't understand what the government is trying to do for them," the 61-year-old congressman complained as he tried to outpace his pursuers.

A quick refresher:

http://www.professorbainbridge.com/professorbainbridgecom/2009/08/is-obamacare-having-a-rostenkowski-moment.html

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/09/us/retreat-congress-catastrophic-care-debacle-special-report-new-medicare-law-fell.html

I WILL admit, I would love to see LIEberman do a homage to Boris Karloff as he runs down the street chased by an angry mob!

[mopinko]

1. organized by now congresswoman jan schakowsky and her husband

bob creamer.

[OHdem10]

2. Right on.