Published: September 13, 2009 01:48 am      

LETTERS: Sept. 13, 2009

Reader comments on health care rally



I don’t know what health care rally a recent letter writer attended, but it doesn’t seem to be the one I attended.

I am glad that the group was mainly pro-health care, but we certainly were not mostly federal workers. In fact, I don’t know of any federal workers who were there, other than Baron Hill and those from his office.

And where did the idea come from that this was by invitation-only. We did not have to show an ID, have invitations or be questioned before entering.

I admit that I was concerned about violence. You may have been friendly, and I will agree that most of the pro-health care group were friendly, but I heard some very harsh words coming from people sitting around me.

I will agree that Hill could open his eyes and ears and be more understanding of what is concerning so many people. We are concerned about the lack of insurance by our family and friends. We are concerned about the cost of health care. We are concerned about the future of health care for our children and grandchildren.

The Republicans had eight years to make the changes they wanted. They did nothing. You don’t have to appease them. We have the votes to pass true reform.

Please don’t stand in the way, Representative Hill. We are your support.

— Linda Mitchell, Clarksville





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The letter writer about Baron Hill’s public forum at Indiana University Southeast was surely at a different meeting than I was.

There were no “invitations” issued to the forum. In fact, admission to the forum was generously promoted in both The Evening News and the Courier-Journal as first come/first served.

My wife, a neighbor and I stood in line at least an hour-and-a-half before the doors opened in hopes we would be among the 400 admitted.

The hall was not “filled with friendly people.” Truth is there was a sizable number of very vocal anti-health care reform attendees, many of whom were physically and audibly disrespectful and rude, not only to the congressman, but to their neighbors in the forum audience.

These overtly obnoxious “anti’s” obviously didn’t come to be informed. They merely wanted to vent their uninformed opposition and disrupt the discussion.

I respect differing views and opinions and often participate in lively discussion. But the myths, distortions, half-truths and outright lies voiced by the anti-health care reform proponents are a disgrace to the ideal of public discourse.

— John Eckert, JeffersonvilleReader wants an explanation from Hill

  

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