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Edwards Announces Schedule For Face-To-Face Town Hall Meetings
Central Texas Congressman Chet Edwards Friday announced the times and locations of three face-to-face town hall meetings on the controversial health care reform proposal now before the U.S. House.
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WACO (August 21, 2009)—Rep. Chet Edwards, D-Waco, will hold face-to-face town hall meetings in Bryan, Waco and Cleburne over the next two weeks on the controversial health care reform proposal now before the U.S. House.
The first meeting will be from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. next Wednesday at the Brazos Center at 3232 Briarcrest Dr. in Bryan.
The doors open to the public at 5 p.m.
The center has a capacity of 1,200, Edwards said.
On Saturday Aug. 29, the second meeting will be held from 10 a.m. to noon in McLennan Hall at the Waco Convention Center at 100 Washington Ave. in Waco.
Doors open at 9 a.m.
The capacity is 1,200.
The final meeting will be from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday Sept. 4 in the Cleburne High School auditorium at 1501 Harlin Dr. in Cleburne.
Doors open at 5 p.m.
Capacity is 1,800.
Questions for each of the meetings will be selected at random by “an independent third party in a lottery system,” according to the announcement.
Residents who want to ask questions must fill out cards as they enter the meeting sites.
They will be called upon randomly to ask the questions.
Printed signs and electronic and recording devices won’t be allowed, the announcement said.
“The issue of health care is vitally important to our families, businesses and nation’s future,” Edwards said.
“By having open, honest and respectful discussions, I hope we can further the cause of protecting the strengths of our present health care system while addressing the concerns of rising health care costs.”
Edwards held a telephone town hall meeting Thursday night.
About 200,000 residents of the 12-county congressional district were invited to join the meeting and about 20,000 of them did.
Edwards fielded about a dozen questions during the 90-minute session.
He has also met privately and publicly with health care professionals, business people, residents and journalists throughout the district.
Waco businessman Rob Curnock, who hopes to challenge Edwards next fall, also held a town hall meeting Thursday evening and plans three more.
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No recording devices Thats running scared! I hope Bryan has a big turn out. We gotta stop this theft In the name of Health care. SS is broke as well as medicaid and they want more money to start another goverment run ponzie scheme.
Chet has spent the past month cowering privately while his inept staffers have dodged and ducked constituents from all angles. Now, at the tail end of his nice, relaxing August vacation, his staff have adopted the TEAM OBAMA "DEMO PROTECT" strategy for town hall meetings. Since cellular phones can transmit conversation, record, produce video, etc., will these items be seized at the front door? Will we have metal detectors in hopes of extracting the occasional tape recorder, hidden microphone, etc.? No signs, which ostensibly includes anti-Chet t-shirts and tattoos, are also banned. This man has become an utter joke. If Chet believes that the Obama health plan is good for America, then he should just inform his citizenry that he is going to vote for it in full defiance of the will of the people who put him in office instead of trying to tip toe through the town meetings and get out of town politically unscathed. This man is no real Texan. It's time for a new representative. Bye Chet
lna: Sorry you had a bad experience with "First Choice". I have Blue Cross and under them I have been very pleased with the speed things happen, usually overnite. All contracts with insurance companies are different so different results may happen. I think one of the best ways to "fix" healthcare in this country is to 1) make healthcare policies available nationwide instead of in small pockets. 2) introduce tax deductions for healthcare premiums to encourage self bought policies. (see cash for clunkers if you don't think this will work). If you don't like the policy or the service, find another one. Pre-existing conditions must be included. 3) all policies must be written in plain english, not legalese, and have government oversight to enforce said policies. Sometimes the best answers are simple and not massive government programs we do not need. We have the best healthcare system in the world due to the private sector striving to improve care.
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