Protesters march in Richmond against health care proposals
More than 100 people gathered outside the downtown Richmond offices of Sens. Jim Webb and Mark R. Warner today to protest the proposed health care plans pending before Congress.
Neither Virginia Senator, both Democrats, has committed to vote in favor of the plan that was unveiled this week in the Senate.
Richmond police officers stood by to make sure the protests were peaceful. Protesters held signs and shouted slogans.
--Tyler Whitley
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THE PEOPLE WHO ARE WRITING COMMENTS AND MAKING FUN OF THE PEOPLE PICKETING OUTSIDE OF WARNER AND WEBBS OFFICES,MAKE ME SAD THEY DON`TKNOW WHAT IT`S LIKE 2 LIVE ON A FIXED INCOME AND R SCARED THAT THEIR INSURANCE COULD GO UP OR CUT. I NO MY MOTHER IS 89 YRS OLD AND IT IS SCARING HER. UNTIL SOMEONE EXPLAINS 2 THEM THEY WILL BE SCARED.SO UNTIL U HAVE WALKED IN THEIR SHOES U DON`T NO. SO BE4 U NO THINK.I`M CONFUSED MYSELF.
$10 most of them don’t know that their Medicare is a government program.
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No nation on earth can call itself a democracy without equal and full access to health care. No nation on earth can call itself a democracy without allowing full personal autonomy over all health decisions, including abortion. These values are severely threatened under the proposed legislation. It is time for protest.
As single payer advocates, we firmly believe that health care decisions must be made between the provider and the patient, with full protection of privacy. Women must be able to access abortion if determined necessary — by either the patient or the doctor.
We call upon the President and the Congress to start from scratch and ask you to join us. Senator Bernie Sanders will introduce a single payer bill in the United States Senate in the coming weeks. Demand that your Senator vote for this bill. In addition, join the National Organization for Women, strong single-payer advocates, in organizing days of action in DC and Pennsylvania to protest the Stupak-Pitts amendment.
The solution to the health care crisis must provide personal freedom from a dysfunctional and unsustainable system that ties health care to the employer and to the spouse. When Medicare was enacted, it reduced poverty in those over 65 by 60%. By this measure, a universal, single-payer system would also provide economic freedom, by raising over 22 million people out of poverty, while providing each of us with full and necessary access to health care. Nothing less will do.
“To all you young “know it all’s”. Medicare does not pay 100%
Most of us worked and paid SS for more years than you have been on this earth.“
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So you admit you receive Medicare benefits and you want to protect what you are getting. I don’t blame you for that, I think it’s a great system and everyone should have the same opportunity to buy in.
I work a block away from where the protest took place. I saw a few dozen self-centered old white folks who were only concerned about their own welfare program (Medicare). They could have cared less about the tens of millions of people with no health insurance at all. They should be ashamed.
Let them speak their minds… I trust Warner and Webb to make the right decision. We are fortunate to have such genuine Senators!
i walked by this diminutive, grey mob on my lunch break. it was only some old people out to protect their medicare bennies. they’re rational actors who don’t want their meal tickets revoked, can’t fault them for that.
You should have asked them what was in the bill. Pages of hilarity, I’m sure.
Those who already have 100% Government Health Care (Medicare) are the most vocal opponents of healthcare reform. Don’t they understand? Or are they just greedy?
When I drove twice only saw 40 to 60 people at the most. Most were on 100% Government Health Care already (Medicare). As a married white male it was interesting to see that the group was made up of only 1 demographic (not really following our nations motto of “E pluribus unum”).
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