Story Created:
Jun 30, 2009 at 8:21 PM CST
Story Updated:
Jun 30, 2009 at 9:21 PM CST
Hundreds of people come together tonight in Sioux Falls saying they want health care reformed but they don't want the government to run the operation. They say any changes should come from the private sector.
"Stay in Washington and provide a strong defense for the United State, follow the Constitution. Don't dream up things that you can do for me, I don't want it done," said Ken Bartness who has diabetes and arterial vein disease and doesn't like President Obama's plan for health care. Bartness wants to keep things the way they are, "I decide the doctor, I work with my doctor on the prescriptions that I take and the quantity that I take."
The keynote speaker at tonight's rally was Doctor Larry Hunter who is currently the President of the Social Security Institute and a former policy advisor to President Ronald Reagan. Dr. Hunter says president obama's plan would break the budget..and mean higher taxes, "The American people won't tolerate that kind of a tax increase, the American economy collapses under it. At the end of the day there's going to be no alternative but to ration care."
Ken and his wife Joyce say "no way," Ken believes that Democrats and Republicans are out of touch with the american people on this issue, "name one thing that they run efficiently and get the job done and do it economically? They can't do it, they don't know what's going on."
South Dakota State Representative Dr. Blake Curd also spoke at the rally, he says patients should be able to make their own choices.
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