Just got a reminder from our friend Christina Wadhwani in New Orleans. Her organization, the Mary Queen of Viet Nam Community Development Corporation is hosting a townhall on health care with Republican Congressman Joseph Cao. Cao is a former board member of this wonderful and important community non-profit. Here is the information
The Town Hall Meeting it's hosted by the Congressman's District office and organized by the Mary Queen of Viet Nam Community Development Corporation, which is a 501(c)3 and is non-partisan. MQVN CDC hopes to promote civic engagement among the Vietnamese residents of New Orleans East through hosting this Town Hall on the Health Care debate. All are welcomed to attend.
Location: 5069 Dwyer Blvd, New Orleans LA 70129
Time: 6:45 to 8:00pm
All are welcomed.
Cao has been teasing the Democrats again on possibly supporting their bill. If you are in the area, please swing by and express your support for the public option.
NOTE - a previous draft erroneously said Cao was still on the board. He is a former board member.
Killing health care reform has always been easier than creating consensus (especially if you're willing to demagogue the issue with "death panels"). But amid all the screaming, here's a point that adds important contextual ballast: Americans don't really think their health care is so hot. People wonder who is behind the town hall riots when anyone discusses health care reform, or Obamacare – the answer is Conservatives for Patients' Rights. Conservatives for Patients Rights, or the CPR, is headed by one Rick Scott – who isn't a doctor – but used to be the CEO of a hospital, and under his watch, his medical administration defrauded Medicare of $1.7 billion through a practice called upcoding, wherein a Medicare patient gets treated, but Medicare is billed for additional tests that never took place. (That's fraud.) Realistically, Conservatives for Patients Rights and Mr. Scott will never need short term loans, and the only reason why they oppose the bill is that they want the money from the program for themselves.
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