Add It Up: Health care reform, by the numbers
August 15, 2009 at 8:51 am by Asher Smith in Add it upNumber of people arrested during a Missouri town hall meeting on health care reform held by Democratic Congressman Russ Carnahan: 6
Number of Democratic congressmen who have received death threats from or have been hanged in effigy by health care reform protesters: 4
Number of people who “liked” Sarah Palin’s Facebook note accusing health care reform of potentially establishing “death panels”: 6,392
Number of attendees at Georgia Democratic Congressman Hank Johnson’s Aug. 10 town hall meeting: 1,500
Number of attendees at Georgia Republican Congressman Tom Price’s Aug. 1 town hall meeting: 60
Attendees at a joint town hall meeting on health care held by Georgia Republican Congressmen Nathan Deal and Phil Gingrey: 600
Number of attendees at the Deal-Gingrey town hall meeting who were visibly supporting President Obama or health care reform: 1
Increase in uninsured patients at Grady Memorial Hospital so far in 2009, compared to all of 2008: 67,000
Obama’s margin of victory over John McCain in the 2008 election, in which each candidate proposed plans for health care reform: 9,522,083
Sources: Facebook, 11alivenews, AJC.com, house.gov
August 15th, 2009 at 10:00 am
Cost of democrats plan 1.6 trillion dollars
August 15th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Number of Obama voters who now have buyers remorse and wish they had voted for McCain : nit sure, but growing rapidly :-)
August 15th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
No, DaleC – Democrats won and want Obama and the rest of the Democrats in Congress to work for a Democratic agenda and quit dealing with the obstructionists. Elections are supposed to have consequences. Republicans need to deal with and quit crapping their pants in public.