Just like "Will illegal aliens get health care under this plan?" They will tell you "No." It's a lie. Read the bill. Ask yourself why the hispanic caucus didn't feel the need to add any wording to the bill. There are many things not stated in black & white, because they know the flack it will raise.

Why depend on them for answers? Accept a little responsibility for your own life. Turn off the TV and read the bill. 99% of your representatives won't read it. Like you they just depend on someone else. Yet you depend on them to answer questions. That makes sense how?

If you believe that this plan is going to improve health care, I truly feel sorry for you. There will be rationing, there will be waiting lists, there will not be any treatments for cancer patients beyond a certain point, elderly will be denied treatment and offered minimal care. Doctors will not be making the decisions – there will a board of bureaucrats deciding your fate.
Medicare is going to go away, and many other reprehensible things are going to happen.
This is not the panacea they want you to believe it will be. It will be far worse at denying coverage than any corporate insurance company now does and you will have no choice. The government will be taking over your life and your death.

That is why people are getting upset. That is why they are booing. They are tired of being lied to, tired of being treated as idiots, tired of their representatives not representing them, they don't want to see their taxes go up (not that it would make a dent in the cost of this health care mess), they don't want to lose their current health care. They do have a First Amendment right to say what they want.

No, I don't work for an insurance company – or any other company. I do not have health care insurance – nor do I want this mess! I do not get Medicare, Medicaid, welfare or Social Security. Not that any of that matters – read the bill yourself.

If you believe the spin from Sebelius and any one else from the government you probably shouldn't be out alone.

This is unbelievable. We can disagree, but we need to act in a civil manner and booing someone and disrupting an event is WRONG, period.

If you are doing this, I hope you never get cancer. My 36 year old friend has cancer which came as a complete shock and CA Blue Shield refuses to pay for all her treatment. She's Stage 4 and has had to rely on the generosity of her friends and family to raise money for her.

What these people are doing is complete wrong. Everyone deserves a chance to speak.

Like I said, pray to God you never get cancer. If you knew what it felt like to be denied treatment by your own health insurance company when you have freakin' CANCER you would not be disrupting these events.

SHAME.

"Many like the idea of single-payer insurance – a system in which all health-care costs are funneled through one agency instead of through multiple insurers. They applauded (and others, of course, booed) when Specter said he thought single-payer insurance should be on the table."

I assume that the Andrew who commented here is Andrew Monaghan, who works in the insurance industry and promotes Tea Party events. He was there, too, egging on people who are, well, less smart than he is.

For WHYY to portray the town hall as a sprited "debate" among thoughtful citizens is nuts.