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Friday, November 20, 2009

Protesting the health care bill

Holding signs protesting the health care bill at 20th and Market, near the office of U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, were (from left) Nick Grabousky, 72, a retired electrical estimator from Eagleville; John Peteraf, 57, a retired firefighter from the Northeast; and Myron Anton, 71, a retired computer scientist from the Northeast.

The Inquirer's Peter Mucha reports:

A rally against the U.S. Senate's health care bill drew a couple of dozen people early this afternoon. They congregated outside Sen. Bob Casey's office at 20th and Market Streets, carrying signs with such messages as "2000 PAGES WHY," "IS CASEY Prolife?" and "OBAMACARE is SOCIALIZED MEDICINE."

Myron Goldman, 67, a retired math teacher from Elkins Park, said that a provision to set up an unelected board of regulators "is the scariest part of the bill."

One of the organizers, Don Adams, of the Independence Hall Tea Party Association, said that the hope was to pressure Casey to help keep the bill from getting to the Senate floor for a vote. "We want him to vote no on cloture, otherwise it's a pro-abortion vote," he said.

The rally was scheduled for 12:30 to 2 p.m.

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Comments

Posted 03:06 PM, 11/20/2009

runpath

Nice. At least 2/3 of these people have their healthcare all sewn up(Medicare, a government program, oh no!)paid for by tax payers, but they think it necessary to stand on Market Street to protest other people being covered also. Pretty selfish.

Posted 03:39 PM, 11/20/2009

Kaiser Sosa

This bill will kill the American dream. You must remember that DEMOCRATS only brought this destruction upon us.

Posted 04:12 PM, 11/20/2009

77volks

Interesting that the folks in the picture above all appear to have access to a government run healthcar plan......must be that Medicare plan that they have that they want the government to keep their hands off...... Kaiser - you are correct this form of reinforcement of the basic principal of shared sacrifice is far from the Rove/Bush plan to have everyone pay their own way....except for Xe, Halliburton, Bechtel, etc., etc. I guess that actually using federal dollars for anthing but propping up the Carlyle Grouup should be considered killing the American Dream.......

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Posted 07:17 AM, 11/21/2009

tr88

All I do is pay. Some people all they do is get.

Posted 08:15 AM, 11/21/2009

langx

Kaiser Sosa: You really need to get that case of Republicanism checked on. One of the symptoms of the mental illness is to completely forget the last 8 years. For the last time it was Bush that was a total failure. Obama was hired to clean up all the wars, the greatest depression, millions of jobs lost, and our military on the brink of imploding. Everything Bush touched he destroyed. Bush peed all over the place and you act like Obama is the one pulling up his zipper. That's Bush pee your smelling. We both agree the country is destroyed. You just keep blaming the wrong person.

Posted 02:38 PM, 11/22/2009

HandNik

The American dream has been dead. I know I will spend my life worse off than my parents, which only happens because the Republican Party rubber stamped Bush's neocon agenda. Republicans made my life harder and will make it harder on my children.