While I’m sure there were plenty of people who earnestly thought they’d get actual answers to their concerns about healthcare and POTUS’ taxes, many appeared to be there to specifically protest Carter’s well-documented views on the environment, border control and reproductive choice.
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Buddy Carter town hall heavy on drama and volume, but scant on specifics
THE long-anticipated town hall meeting of Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Savannah, lived up to the hype in terms of crowd intensity and size of the audience, which packed the Armstrong Center […]
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Editor’s Note: Most. Interesting. Week. Ever.
After the gay marriage ruling, I’ve never seen such a widespread, spontaneous and genuine outpouring of joy, relief, and celebration from so many people as I saw that day, and the weekend to follow. Frankly, it might be the most deeply felt expression of national unity seen since 9/11, if I may be so bold.
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Taking the temperature on American healthcare
We need a Surgeon General who isn’t some quack in scrubs waving a box of Band-Aids and some fake diet pills.
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Can you afford your kids’ health insurance?
Last July, the National League of Cities awarded Savannah and Mayor Edna Jackson one of eight $250,000 grants to reduce the number of uninsured children in Chatham County by 50 percent.
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Here’s to your health (insurance)!
In theory, the Affordable Care Act provides decent care and protects patients from suffocating bills, though so far in practice it seems to be performing about as well as a drunken rhino running the Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon.
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Editor’s Note: A raw Deal on health care
As usual with the Deal administration, follow the money. An entire Political Action Committee (PAC) was created specifically to fund Deal’s effort to obstruct Obamacare. Some of its donors include Aetna, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Humana, Pfizer, and Wellcare.