Tea partiers heckle woman whose daughter-in-law died because she didn’t have health insurance

[marmar]

from thinkprogress:




Tea partiers heckle woman whose daughter-in-law died because she didn’t have health insurance.

At a town hall event on health care reform hosted by Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-IL) earlier this month, Midge Hough told the tragic story of how her daughter-in-law, Jenny, and her unborn grandchild died recently because they didn’t have health insurance. Jenny came down with “severe double pneumonia, Septic shock and Respitory failure,” Hough said, “and laid in an ICU unit for the next two months at a cost of $22,000 a day.” Her baby died in the womb and Jenny died a few weeks later. But as Hough was telling her story, tea partiers at the meeting “ridiculed” her, the South Town Star reports. “They moaned and rolled their eyes and interrupted,” laughing loudly and shouting her down at points. Watch it (beginning at 1:30): http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/23/tea-heckle-woman/


Chicago Tea Party Patriots sent out a flyer to encourage attendance at the event, saying Lipinski had “sold us out!” by voting “to pass socialized medicine.” In defense of the heckling, an organizer for the group falsely claimed that the Houghs fabricated their story and called them operatives of President Barack Obama who “go from event to event and (cry) the same story.” At another recent event, Hough told Gov. Pat Quinn (D-IL) that she has been “personally attacked” by tea party activists at her home address. (HT: Crooks and Liars)


http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/23/tea-heckle-woman/

[YOY]

1. These people are truly scum.

I will never cease to be amazed by their viciousness.

[asjr]

2. I am afraid things have gone too far

to be able to fight it. The word scum is too lenient. They are beyond repair.

[WCGreen]

4. There not scum they are fucking Nazi's...

Mark my word if people don't stand up to these thugs, there will be wide spread political violence in the streets...

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. I would love to give those people a chance to visit a hospital for

an extended stay.