Cantor, Scott to appear at T-D’s Public Square on health-care reform
For the past month and a half, legislators across the state and nation have been hosting their own health-care town halls.
But the Richmond Times-Dispatch is bringing together two lawmakers on opposite sides of the debate for a civil conversation about health-care reform.
Tomorrow, U.S. Reps. Eric I. Cantor, R-7th, and Robert C. Scott, D-3rd, will come together at The Times-Dispatch's 26th Public Square to assess health care. Cantor and Scott will briefly outline their positions on health care and then open the floor to questions and comments.
Scott has held three town-hall meetings on health care during this summer's congressional recess -- in Richmond, Norfolk and Newport News. Cantor has not held any health-care town halls during the recess.
"After their overview, the audience can add to the understanding by asking questions and offering succinct points," said Thomas A. Silvestri, publisher and president of The Times-Dispatch. "Unlike the town halls conducted by members of Congress, our Public Square isn't about lobbying a particular position. It is about learning more about an issue by participating in a civil conversation."
The 90-minute Public Square begins at 10 a.m. at The Times-Dispatch's downtown offices, 300 E. Franklin St., and will be moderated by Silvestri.
Only 225 seats are available for the event, and they will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Sign-in starts at 9 a.m. in the front lobby of The Times-Dispatch, and doors to the event open at 9:30.
The Times-Dispatch has been flooded with calls about the Public Square from the public and state and national media.
"We already know there's a good chance that not everyone who comes can get in. That's a fact associated with our limited seating," Silvestri said. "But the Public Square has never been about filling a coliseum or theater. Its focus is on the conversation in the room, which we are sharing live on TimesDispatch.com, in the next day's paper and via transcript in our Sunday Commentary section."
For more details or directions, call (804) 649-6331 or (804) 649-6305 or visit TimesDispatch.com and do a keyword search for "Public Square."
Contact Paige Mudd at (804) 649-6671 or .
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I’ve seen a lot of numbers thrown around for proposed health care plans regarding how much they will cost. My question is this: How much will it cost if we don’t change a thing? Meaning, would these proposed plans really cost an outrageous amount, or will we pay that much no matter what? I’m really curious what our current health care system will cost us over 10 years…
Actually, Anon, he held a town hall the second week in August right after the beginning of the summer break. Sorry you missed it. I brought a Democrat with me to it.
I’m not going to argue that Congress shouldn’t be willing to accept whatever health care they expect us to accept. They should be required to do so. But the fact is government can’t run itself or anything else efficiently. The $900 billion 10-year price tag will be $2.5 trillion by 2020 if history is any indication.
And this idea to require all Americans to have health insurance is absolute socialism. No, liberals, it’s not like a drivers license or auto insurance. You put others in danger if you’re not a licensed or insured driver. Health insurance is a very personal thing that should be each individual’s decision. Our new socialist government better damn well keep its grubby paws out of it.
Cantor spent his entire August vacation holed up in his McMansion in Wyndham - probably doing laps around his swimming pool and working on his tan.
I’m a Cantor constituent too (by a mere few hundred yards, alas), and he certainly doesn’t speak for me. I’ve sent emails and snail mail to his office with no response, so I guess any voice that falls outside the “overwhelming majority” is just to be ignored.
Odd that someone who spends so much time on his blackberry would have so much trouble responding to an email…
I’m a Cantor constituent and I have a question: If a public option is bad (reason being stated is that government cannot run anything efficiently), when does he plan to introduce legislation that will privatize veteran’s healthcare as well as Medicare/Medicaid? I’d just like the same kind of coverage as both Scott and Cantor are given via my taxes. If I can get that, I don’t really care what it’s called.
Eric Cantor has no reason to hold a Town Hall meeting in his district. The overwhelming majority are against socialized medicine and he is on the right side in protecting his constituents interests.
“Cantor has not held any health-care town halls during the recess.“
This can’t be correct! Cantor is a brave little man, who isn’t afraid of anything.
Just ask Scott if he thinks the US has the best health care system in the world. He will bob, weave and rope a DOPE like he did on WRVA radio. Scott relies only on stats provided by the America hating UN.
What a DOPE. We all HOPE drhoagie gets a shot at that non American tomorrow on the forum.
And will Cantor be providing us with uber-crucial tweets while Scott is speaking? What an embarrassment.
Will Cantor let us know what “notes” were about? I cannot believe that he would be so rude to the President of the United States! As one of Cantor’s constituents, I must say that he not only disrespected the President, but he shamed his constituents as well.
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