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People expressed their anger and frustration at the meeting, chaired by Vitter who spoke of his concerns before introducing other speakers on the podium. Vitter described the Obama administration’s health care program as likely ending up to be entirely government-run and underlined the worries and fears this would bring, including rationing of health insurance, elimination of coverage and the reduction of health benefits to seniors. He said the health program in the United States was, for the most part, working well and only needed minor adjustments since many of the people without coverage were immigrants or those who didn’t want health coverage anyway.
After Vitter spoke, he introduced three other speakers who reinforced Vitter’s positions. One was an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist, another from the Pelican Advisory Group, and an employer who owns a series of supermarkets with a number of employees for whom he provides health care coverage. All of them underlined Vitter’s message that the proposed health care program in Washington was wrong, leading to socialism and going to take away people’s rights to have their choice of doctors and their privacy in relationship to medical care. They agreed that Canada’s system required people to visit the United States because they couldn’t get important medical care.
Questions from the audience were pre-selected by Vitter and his staff as they were brought to the podium. No one was allowed to spontaneously address the podium. There were no questions read that presented anything other than Vitter’s view and those who spoke with him. Nor was there time allowed for anyone to speak after comment cards with questions had been addressed, all of whom were in support of Vitter’s position. Vitter was said to have no time to answer questions from the press. Those who had written the questions were then allowed to speak from the floor of the auditorium and elaborate on their concerns.
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