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Topic started on 31-8-2009 @ 10:56 PM by Sestias

Schakowsky's town hall on health care is heated


www.chicagobreakingnews.com
In a scene familiar to the roiling national health-care debate, hundreds flocked to a town hall meeting in Skokie this evening, many chanting and brandishing signs with sharply opposing messages.

U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) organized the event in Niles West High School, and most of the estimated 1,200 who gathered in the auditorium seemed supportive of both her and a public option for health-care reform.



But there were also many vocal dissenters such as Richard Schulte, an Evanston resident who said he feared "socialized medicine."
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reply posted on 1-9-2009 @ 12:40 PM by Sestias
reply to post by Reginald


The Care Homes for the elderly look great, if they're really as good as the brochure says. We could use those in the U.S., where if an elderly person wants to live in assisted or residential homes they have to pay a whole lot.

Their only other option is to spend down all of their financial assets and when they're broke they can get Medicare to pay for a nursing home. These nursing homes provide a bed (usually in a shared room) and medical care but are not set up for those who cannot live alone but are still too active to be in bed all day.

The old people here in the U.S. are being misled about what health care reform could look like if a good bill is passed.
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