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Health Care Reform Bill: Americans fight back, Katy Abram's story

August 11, 2009

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Senator Arlen Specter (D-Pa.), who switched from the Republican to Democratic Party this year, was confronted with questions and statements at a town hall meeting in Lebanon, Pennsylvania on Tuesday. His constituency is frustrated about the Democratic Party's proposed Health Care Reform Bill that is aimed at changing the U.S. health care system.

Specter was booed and jeered in a room of about 250 people at a community college. Hundreds organized rallies outside.

30 participants of the meeting were selected to ask questions. Most memorable is the statement of Katy Abram, 35, mother of two, summing up the general feeling of the audience in one statement:

"It's not about health care ... It's about the systematic dismantling of this country ... I don't want this country turning into Russia, turning into a socialized country," Abram said to Specter.

And Katy Abram asked Sen. Specter: "What are you going to do to restore this country back to what our founders created, according to our Constitution?"

Katy Abram later on Tuesday appeared on Fox News, which covered the Specter event.

"I know that years down the road, I don't want my children coming to me and asking me, 'Mom, why didn't you do anything? Why do we have to wait in line for, I don't know, toilet paper or anything?' I don't want to have to tell them I didn't do anything. As a normal citizen, the most I feel like I can do is come to this town hall meeting," she stated.

Katy Abram told Sean Hannity, the conservative host of the Hannity show of the Fox News, she's "proud of what I said, because it's from my heart." She added that, later in the day, people have allegedly called her on her cell phone following her appearance and called her a racist. Katy called them "cowards." She also admited she was a reformed Democrat who regrets voting for Bill Clinton - twice - and assured that she was "not bused in... I'm a normal person" who wanted to voice her opinion at Sen. Specter's town hall meeting.
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Links to the text of the Health Care Reform Bill as introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives (1018 pages) and U.S. Senate (617 pages).

Video: WGAL, an NBC-affiliated television station; Fox News; Hannity TV Show on Fox News Channel