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Health Care at Home
by Jess Bidgood | October 8, 2009
SOMERVILLE– It’s been a long and strange road for the Obama
health care plan.
As Congress finalizes its reform proposals this week, I turned to a set of photos I took about a month ago, when Senator John Kerry was at Somerville High School. He was there to lead a town hall discussion on health care overhaul– part of a nationwide effort to drum up support for a comprehensive reform bill.
Those meetings famously drew extreme protesters accusing President Obama, the blue dogs, and their plan of being a Nazi conspiracy, among other things.
It was a little different in overwhelmingly Democratic Somerville, where Kerry found an audience that was, for the most part, receptive to the idea of health care reform. On September 2, thousands of people lined up around the block to see the Senator defend reform and explain just what was holding it up.
