Sen. Hosts Health Care Town Hall
Obama Has Urgency To Pass Bill People Don't Want, Lemieux Says
POSTED: Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Florida Sen. George Lemieux told a few dozen people at hastily arranged town hall meeting in Fort Lauderdale that health care reform should be passed piece by piece, not in an all-encompassing plan.People want health care reform; they don't want insurance companies to be able to drop them with pre-existing conditions. But they're scared about what's going on in Washington. They don't understand this bill. It's too big," Lemieux said. Many of those who attended the town hall meeting at a community center on Galt Ocean Mile had personal issues to ask about.Fort Lauderdale resident Dennis Ulmer heard doctors were already refusing Medicare cases."I have disability. I'm concerned I'll have to go to specialists and they won't take Medicare anymore," he said.Business owner Pamela Adams wants any health care reform to include a mandate that insurance companies cover customers with preexisting conditions."Pre-existing conditions, as well as controlling costs, those are the big ones and most personal to me," she said.Lemieux has immersed himself in the health care reform issue since Gov. Charlie Crist appointed him to the Senate seat last fall. He insists health care reform should include reforms to end Medicare fraud and junk malpractice lawsuits."They want us to deal with preexisting conditions? We can do that. They want us to fight waste and abuse? We can do that. Tackle legal reform? We can do that," he said. "President Obama has urgency, but his urgency is to pass this big bill that most people in America don't want."
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