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Press Contact: Theresa Petry, (314) 807-7077
Obama airs another staged production; Ed Martin holds public Town Hall on Health Care
(ST. LOUIS, MO.) Feb. 25, 2010 – President Obama’s bipartisan Health Care Summit to lay out his “new” proposed health care reform will be televised today on C-SPAN. The six-hour meeting between 12 Democratic Congress members and nine Republicans has been advertised as a roundtable to solve the problems plaguing the $2.5 trillion U.S. industry. But it’s nothing more than a staged production.
“The majority of voters opposed the previous health care takeover the President attempted to burden us with. This plan is without a doubt no different, since he and Congressman Carnahan refuse to listen to the people. The President claims compromises and changes were made. Well you can change the cover of a magazine but it still reads the same, and people aren’t buying it,” said 3rd district Congressional Candidate Ed Martin.
Even members of his own party don’t believe it or want it. In an interview on Fox news Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) said, “We have some real legislative and procedural concerns with what the leadership is trying to do with this legislation.” Stupak called the proposed compromises by Obama “unacceptable.”
What Obama is trying to do is force his vision of health care reform on an unwilling society. Just after the President called for the summit meeting Rasmussen conducted a poll and found 61% of voters think Congress should scrap the plan and start all over. Just yesterday another poll showed 71% of voters are unhappy with Congress, that’s the highest level ever reported by Rasmussen.
“The President, holding this summit, is just wasting more time. He is turning our health care into a soap opera, setting the stage, placing his actors, but not even re-writing the script. They should be focusing on what people really want. As a matter of fact I will hold another Town Hall on Health Care and invite both the President and Congressman Carnahan to attend. If they were to listen to the people, like I do, they would be able to come up with a health care reform bill that was by the people – for the people,” said Martin.
What: “We the People Health Care Summit”
When: Wednesday, March 3rd from 7pm-9pm.
Where: Two Hearts Banquet Center located at 4532 South Lindbergh Blvd.
Congressman Carnahan was sent an invite. But he may be too busy in Washington to listen to his constituents before voting on any health care reform bill. Let’s hope he at least reads this bill.
For more information about Martin’s background and the campaign, visit EdMartinforCongress.com, or follow him on Facebook and Twitter @ed4congress.
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