U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor talked insurance, abortion, health care and other issues Monday night before a standing-room-only crowd at the Hancock County Courthouse.
Monday’s gathering was much less heated than Taylor’s town hall meeting last month in Moss Point. Monday, about 250 people attended, but at the meeting last month, upwards of 1,000 people showed up, while hundreds waited outside. Those in Moss Point were spurred by conservative groups who opposed President Barack Obama’s health-care proposals. The event Monday was also much less tense than the last one, at which Taylor was interrupted many times and a deputy asked the crowd for order. There were very few interruptions Monday night.
The congressman repeated his disapproval of Obama’s health-care reform proposals which are in Congress now. The plan has drawn the ire of fiscal conservative groups, as well as television and radio personalities. Taylor, a conservative Democrat, has said he opposed the Obama plan because it would create around $1 trillion in new debt. The rate as which funds are drying up from the Medicare trust fund also scares Taylor. He said some estimates say around 2017 there won’t be enough money in the Medicare trust fund to pay for the program.
Sun Herald
9/29/9
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