Healthcare forum at Palace Theater
WSTM TV 3 (NBC)
Maureen McManus
October 2nd, 2008
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Two congressional candidates shared their thoughts on health care at a forum Thursday night at the Palace Theater in Syracuse. Democrat Dan Maffei and Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins both said the current system is not working for many people.
Maffei said "We have to find a way to bring in the 46 and a half million uninsured," because that "includes all of us or almost all of us including me."
Hawkins said "when you go step by step to expand public coverage what you end up with is a system where the power structure of drug companies and insurance companies remains intact, influencing legislators and bureaucracy so that the profits are shifted to the private sector and the costs are shifted to the public sector."
Dale Sweetland was not at Thursday's event because he was at an event in Monroe County. But Action News spoke with him on the phone, and he said he thinks health care is almost at a crisis right now, and Congress does need to spend more time debating the issue. But he says he does not think America is ready for government controlled healthcare.
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