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The town hall meetings on health care have turned into a forum for some miss-informed people to vent their anger about what they perceive as government death panels and the like. Like Palin said the government death panels may decide to kill grandparents and mentally challanged children. People get real exited by these statements. It is almost impossible to have a dialogue with people screaming at you for wanting to kill their loved ones.
It would be good for the country if Republicans would ratchet down the fighting rhetoric and instead focus on their alternative reforms. I believe they may be right about a government alternative eventually taking over the majority of health care. I don't think this is such a bad thing but the Democrats won't openly say so for political reasons.
I believe that staying the course in health care will be a disaster and may bankrupt many people and maybe even the government in a few years. I hear Hannity, Beck and others talk about how adding 50 million people will cause doctor shortages and I wonder just what do they think should be done with them and the thousands becoming uninsured every week.
At the present rate even those of us with insurance will not be able to afford it much longer.
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