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Obama Takes Health Care Debate to a N.H. School
By HELENE COOPER (READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT THIS LINK)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/health/policy/12obama.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Fans and foes of President Obama’s push to overhaul health care descended on a local high school here on Tuesday, ostensibly to give the visiting Mr. Obama a piece of their minds. In reality, they appeared to spend a lot more time yelling at each other.

“Parasites!” yelled the protestors on the right side of the school’s driveway who oppose the president’s plan.

“Ignorants!” yelled the protestors on the left side who support it.

While apparently failing to convert the people on the right side of the driveway, Mr. Obama sought to reassure the 1,800 people inside the school gymnasium that health care overhaul did not mean Americans would lose their coverage or surrender treatment decisions to the government. Special interest groups seeking to block change, Mr. Obama said, were trying to scare people with misinformation, creating “boogeymen out there that just aren’t real.”

“Where we do disagree, let’s disagree over things that are real, not these wild misrepresentations that bear no resemblance to anything that has actually been proposed,” Mr. Obama told the audience.

Unlike most of Mr. Obama’s town-hall-style meetings, which are usually filled with supporters, Tuesday’s meeting included a few skeptics of his plan. He also sought questions from those skeptics, at one point asking that only people who disagreed with his health proposal raise their hand.

There were plenty who did. One woman, a school teacher from Portsmouth, asked where the country was going to get the doctors and nurses to attend to all the newly insured people that changes to the health care system might bring. Another questioner, Bill Anderson, complained that Medicare tried to force him to take a generic for Lipitor, the anticholesterol drug, which did not agree with him, before allowing him to return to the name-brand drug. And Ben Hershenson, a self-described Republican —”I don’t know what I’m doing here.”— fretted that a government-run public option would kill private insurance companies.