Dozens Attend Mobile Health Care Forum

Alabama Mobile  The forum is held by Senator Jeff Sessions on a day when a compromise is being discussed in Washington.
by Steve Alexander
Published: Thu, September 03, 2009 - 9:36 pm CST Last Updated: Thu, September 03, 2009 - 9:52 pm CST
MOBILE, Alabama - A health care reform compromise may be in the works.
This comes on a night when folks packed the University of South Alabama Mitchell Center to tell Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions what they think of the issue.
Thursday evening, more than 200 people attended the public health care listening forum at the Mitchell Center.
Comments and questions for Senator Jeff Sessions ran the gamut.
One person said, "How do you think we can stop insurance companies from treating us so bad? And they keep making money, trillions."
Still another said, "We need some kind of public option or something where you can get in here and have some kind of safety net for people like me. I cannot get insurance at all under the present program."
"The CO-OP is only coming through the backdoor with this socialized medicine," said one woman in the crowd. "No CO-OP."
Yet another posed a question.
She asked, "Concerning President Obama, last year, when we were in a deep recession and things were really bad, he stepped into an awful mess. Why can't we just get behind him just a little bit and encourage him and just see where he might go?"
Sessions also spoke about a report that aides to President Obama have talked with a moderate Republican senator about a compromise health care plan.
It would not include a government health insurance option, but one could be added later if insurance companies don't make reforms to increase coverage and lower costs.
Sessions said, "I don't think just because that's out (the government option) we just ought to adopt the rest of the proposal. I think it needs a a lot of work and a lot of study."

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News being bias? No way, can’t be. That is like saying the schools are bias to the liberal cause, and we all know that’s not true.  Just look at what these dumocates are saying. They are stupid anyway you look at it.  Stupid because they think you don’t know they are telling a bold face lie or they really don’t know anything about what they are doing.  Question to a Dem. Senator about health care bill; will it raise taxes or raise the national debt? Dem. Senator “no”. Congress woman from CA. “ we need to have health care like Cuba. Cuba is a wonderful system we could learn a lot from them” THE Obamanation will have this country and health care running like Prichard in no time.

I was there and this is bias reporting in my opinion.  Those comments for health care were extremely rare and channel 5 picked those out purposely to air for their newscast.  There might have been 3 or 4 comments in a 2 hour town hall where MOST everyone was against Govt. Controlled Health Care.  Afterwards the newsreporter made a b-line for those who said they were for Health Care.

wait for me; interesting response i will ge back to you after i feed the herd. (Only three dogs, not a literal herd.you have a lot of good ideas

Clay, what you are saying is partially true.  We contribute to Medicare, but we will never get to see true benefit from it because if the current plans for reform pass they WILL cut at least 500 billion dollars from Medicare, this is true and what Obama said himself, no spin.  So by the time I and most are of age to benefit from our contributions it will be useless and we will be left with “End of Life Panels” and long waits for any type of medical treatment.  As for social security all of us that work also contribute to this, but we will never see any benefit from it either. What do these two programs have in common; both are government run programs, so to see our healthcare taken over by an inept government that can’t properly run cash for clunkers would be a big mistake by ALL Americans.  We as Americans need torte reform and for our government to relax the current laws allowing insurance companies from other states to compete, that would bring the cost down allowing more to be insured.  Adding a government option would mainly benefit those that are already to lazy to work to pay for their own insurance and those like you that are owners of small businesses so you can drop your employee plan and let them enjoy the fruits of my labor by getting on the governments teet.

no one said the government option is out, its only the minority who cant effect it anyway,the party of no. oh and by the way, you didint pay for medicare friends, you contributed towards theose collecting while you were working and i am doing the same for you now. saem with that social security your drawing. difference is when i try and collect it wont be there and because we had fewer children there will be less people to support a larger qaging population. but your hoping i dont notice that jeff. here you are a senator preaching the same misonformation limbaugh is preaching.

“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”
-Ronald Reagan

The writer posts the question, but what were the answeres.Just my opinion,but Have you been to the dmv or maybe some other government run agency? They make a mess of everything they touch. So why would you let them control your health care?

The author of this piece states first that “This comes on a night when folks packed the University of South Alabama Mitchell Center…”

The next sentence states “Thursday evening, more than 200 people attended the public health care listening forum at the Mitchell Center.”

I have been to the Mitchell Center and I believe it would take considerably more than 200 people to pack the venue.

Just a thought.

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