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Weiner Holds Town Hall in Brooklyn

by Fred Mogul

NEW YORK, NY August 13, 2009 —About 150 people attended a town hall meeting on health care reform in Brooklyn, hosted by Brooklyn and Queens Congressman Anthony Weiner. He's proposing a single payer system.

REPORTER: Today Democrat Anthony Weiner spoke at a Brooklyn senior center. He said he’d like to see what he calls “Medicare for All” – with the federal government completely replacing private insurance coverage. That sounded good to Ken Wecker.

WECKER: I think it’s not a bad plan. So far it’s the best I’ve heard. Because the president’s plan is iffy.

REPORTER: But Sheryl Deblinger is more worried about the size of government.

DEBLINGER: You gotta do some heavy regulation or have some oversight or do something, but you can’t keep taxing people.

REPORTER: Others in the crowd said they're concerned about too much being spent on healthcare for undocumented workers. Weiner said covering them is still better than forcing them to get all treatment in hospital emergency rooms.


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