SEPTEMBER 1, 2009
Health-Care Anger Has Deeper Roots
By JANET ADAMY and JONATHAN WEISMAN
WASHINGTON — Recent town-hall uproars weren’t just about health care. They were also eruptions of concern that the government is taking on too much at once.
That suggests trouble for the president and his party, and fears of losses in next year’s midterm election are likely to shape the Democrats’ fall agenda.
The uproar at town-hall meetings in August has been as much about the role of government as it has been about the health overhaul, WSJ’s Janet Adamy reports.
At August’s town-hall meetings, voters often started with complaints about health care, only to shift to frustrations about all the other things President Barack Obama and the Democrats have done or tried to do since January. The $787 billion economic-stimulus package, the government-led rescue of General Motors Corp. and climate-change legislation all came in for criticism.
“A lot of the anxiety we face here has less to do with health care and everything to do with the overall state of the economy and government,” said Rep. Anthony Weiner, a New York Democrat.
via Health-Care Anger Has Deeper Roots – WSJ.com.
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