{"id":938,"date":"2009-08-18T22:24:35","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T22:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=376"},"modified":"2009-08-18T22:24:35","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T22:24:35","slug":"grassroots-health-care-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=938","title":{"rendered":"grassroots health care debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

On our last tour, we stopped in Lee, New Hampshire, where groups of Republicans and Democrats were demonstrating about health care reform on a public green there one morning. \u00a0 We stopped and talked to both sides. \u00a0 On the Republican side, the consensus, basically, was that health care in America wasn’t “broken” (although some of the group acknowledged it could use some<\/em> changes). \u00a0 For instance, one woman said there should be a cap on money you can receive in health care lawsuits so, in turn, insurance to doctors and other health care providers wasn’t as high… \u00a0 On the Democrat side, people were primarily for the health care reform being proposed because they felt more people (especially the low-income people) should have more access to quality health care… \u00a0 Frederick Berrien, MD, from Exeter, New Hampshire, was lobbying for Universal Health Care coverage. \u00a0 In a paper he was passing out, he writes: \u00a0 “Universal health insurance will decrease overall costs by providing access to covered preventive services and lower cost acute care, thus preventing the progression of expensive illnesses. \u00a0 The uninsured and under-insured presently do not seek preventive care such as mammograms, hypertension treatment, etc. \u00a0 They also delay in obtaining care for acute illnesses until preventable problems have progressed to debilitating conditions…” \u00a0 Like, say, some stroke victims… \u00a0 The other day I was near the West Side Market in Cleveland and heard a distraught man telling a friend what he’d just witnessed at the Market. \u00a0 A man was apparently having a stroke, had slumped to the ground and someone was frantically calling 911 — when the victim looked up and pleaded with the caller to put down the phone. \u00a0 “I don’t have insurance and can’t pay for this!” \u00a0<\/em> The man relating the story shook his head and continued: \u00a0 “Ironically, those might have been the last words this man ever says. \u00a0 And we’re arguing about health care reform in this country?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On our last tour, we stopped in Lee, New Hampshire, where groups of Republicans and Democrats were demonstrating about health care reform on a public green there one morning. \u00a0 We stopped and talked to both sides. \u00a0 On the …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}