Almost the whole hour+ of questions and speaking can be found on youtube by searching for “mccaskill question session”. It’s a lot to sift through, but there are some interesting points being brought up.

Thats it? Thats all your coverage? WOW!

For more information on the event, go here:
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/07/sen-mccaskills-office-holds-town-hall.html

If the right keeps trotting out their extreme base they will continue to get no results. Most people at this event did not come to offer constructive ctiticism, but rather to offer vague talking points meant to energize the crowd. That is find if that is what the objective is, but it does not really move the debate forward.
I did have one nice chat with a women that I disagreed with after speaking. She said that there should be more regulation, but doesn’t like the idea of a public option. That is legitimate. I disagree, but at least she knows that the current system does not work and that something must be done. It is a shame she did not speak and instead let a bunch of crazies hog the mic with their incoherent talking points.

> Most people at this event did not come to offer constructive ctiticism,
> but rather to offer vague talking points meant to energize the crowd.

As opposed to the millions of people parroting talking points emailed to them by moveon.org … with which, for some reason, the Posties never seem to have a problem. Indeed, they seem unable to identify such coordinated efforts on the left, despite the fact that they are surely on the moveon.org mailing list themselves.

Richard,

I would venture to say that more than 80% of the country believes that health care should be reformed. The problem we have as a people is we have no means of getting this through the heads of those crafting the legislation. The government is not the option. Usually never is. It is too big and corrupt to take on anything this size and be successful.

We need to look at the entire industry and see why the costs are so high. One that many are not and will not talk about are the trial lawyers. They are the biggest culprits in this whole mess. They drive the price of Malpractice insurance through the roof and thus those cost are passed along to the consumer. How can we have health care reform without tort reform?

After sending some quality time learning why it is so expensive, we as a country can help solve the issues in front of us. If the congress runs through us and fixes a problem with a problem, is it really fixed?

“Extreme base”. That’s funny.

Bet Claire isn’t the only congress critter dreading the summer recess. I’m guessing more than a few are cancelling state fair appearances.

“Extreme base”?

After watching more on youtube, I wonder who that is? The mother of twins that were born prematurely at 26 weeks with low odds of survival?

Or the college student with cochlear implants, who is wondering if this procedure will be ruled out as too expensive?

Maybe the small business owner who provides insurance for employees, but is worried about the government limiting his ability in the future to do so?

I wish I could have attended, but I am thankful someone took the time to record this meeting. Watch for yourselves and come to your own conclusions.

I see a lot of ordinary people with thoughtful questions taking the opportunity to be heard.

I have great applause for the young soldier, budding barrister of the Supreme Law of the Land, our beloved Constitution; the convention of which I presided over in the sweltering summer of 1787 in Philadelphia.

Most assuredly, our nation has grown and evolved over the years since I served Her — in many ways I do not even recognize the breadth of power She has assumed, both privately and publically. One thousand military installations circumferentially placed in locations around the world, both precipitous and safely removed from imminent threat? Unthinkable in my day. But it is a new day, indeed.

Having confessed that I am hardly familiar with the modern procession of public enterprise, let alone intimately expert, I would encourage the youngster to consider the ramifications of what he is suggesting.

He cites that for Congress to promote the health of our citizens is clearly beyond the purview of Constitutional mandate. With the heavenly and magickal science of medicine today, it is sad to see a citizen suggest that this favor of God should only be accessible to those of means and wealth.

In America, we always envisioned the favors of science and knowledge to apply to all, and not be solely reserved for the aristocracy or monarchy. Libraries of books in old Europe were not known by a nation’s yeomen, but as Madison said, if a people intend to be their own self-governors, they must wield the power that knowledge brings.

As our young soldier, bless his service, has intimated that the general welfare clause should only apply to those specific powers enumerated in Article 1 Section 8, and not promote any health care plan, I would have him consider the totality of his suggestion.

After a cursory examination of programs birthed over our two hundred years since my office, that could be construed as unconstitutional and beyond his specific and subjective interpretation of the enumerated powers entrusted to Congress, I have compiled a list of a few that would have to be repealed if we, as a national family, were to heed his admonishment and direction.

-Repeal Social Security and Railroad Retirement.
-Repeal Medicare and Medicaid funds.
-Dept of Education abolished.
-Repeal Income Tax and the Federal Reserve Act.
-The Voting Rights Act should be repealed.
-Federal Election Campaign Act and the Federal Election Commission
-Repeal all federal campaign finance laws
-Abolish the Department of Energy
-A purging of all lands, National Parks, etc. which are held by the federal government without authorization by the Constitution.
-Repeal of federal wetlands legislation
-Repeal of the federal Endangered Species Act.
-Repeal of United States participation in UN programs such as UNESCO, Man and the Biosphere, and the UN Council on Sustainable Development.
-Repeal of the Biodiversity Treaty, the Convention on Climate Control.
-Repeal Hate Crime legislation.

I trust that cooler and calmer heads will prevail as we continue to evolve the experiment of republicanism embodied in these United States of America, lest, as we empty the dirty waters of a used bath, the baby will have also been dispatched.

G. Washington.

Everybody remember this story the next time you think I’m being ‘unfair’ to the post and the leftest drones that write for them.

And oh our brave Senator… unable to face the voters.

Yep, it’s going to be a long recess for many Congress Critters

The condescending attitude of the McCaskill staffer who hosted the event was appalling. She constantly referred to the audience as “health care opponents” as though people who opposed the proposed plan actually opposed health care! She reflected the senator’s aloof attitude.

So it basically comes down to this. After I paid into Medicare my entire working career, just before I become eligible for it, they’re scrapping Medicare and taking all the money and lumping seniors in with everyone else in a dumbed-down plan that is essentially a budget-grade HMO. It will be so bad, Congress refuses to subject themselves to it, opting to keep the separate premium plan that covers our imperial congress now.

My doctor (an Obamacare supporter) recently confirmed to me:
* Obamacare will replace Medicare.
* Seniors will get less health care under Obamacare than they do now under Medicare.
* Obamacare will ration health care.
* Rationing will get more severe because of increasing shortages of doctors. In fact, he noted that this is already happening, because fewer students are going into medicine because of the likelihood of reduced income under Obamacare.