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April 2, 2008

Roberts bringing health-care proposal to community

PROVIDENCE -- State and local officials plan to tout a proposed health plan tomorrow at a community meeting in the city’s south end.

In the first of several planned meetings, Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts and a handful of local officials will answer questions about Roberts' proposed Healthy Rhode Island Reform Act, eight bills aimed at increasing the availability of health care.

Roberts will be joined by state Sen. Juan Pichardo, Reps. Grace Diaz, Joe Almeida, Thomas Slater and Anastasia Williams, and Councilman Miguel Luna.

Roberts is also soliciting anecdotes from residents illustrating how poor or no access to health care has affected their lives.

The public meeting is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. tomorrow at Ada's Creations, at 1137 Broad St.

Posted by Brandie Jefferson  at 10:22 AM | Permalink

Comments

Roberts is a socialist crackpot. Going to a rally as an elected official to rail against Carcieri, standing alongside a group called "Stop The Hate." Stop what hate? And now she brings Pichardo, Luna, Diaz, and Williams along with her to unveil "Her Health Plan." These four aforementioned folks are virulent race baiters, but Roberts will do and say anything to get attention, and the support of liberals. You geniuses should have voted Cool Moose, and you wouldn't have this publicity hound wasting taxpayer dollars.

Hickok | April 2, 2008 10:48 AM link

Hey Liz,
While you are on your campaign to make RI healthy, perhaps you should consider the health implications that come from having illegal immigrants in our communities and in our schools. Who's going to enforce the vaccination requirements in our schools if we're just looking the other way, and how do we protect the rest of the legal population if we don't know what type of diseases are entering our borders?
It used to be that we excluded those who carried dangerous, communicable diseases for public safety reasons. Considering the lethal, medication-resistant diseases that are prevalent today, we should be a lot more vigilant about controlling our borders, and you should just stop pandering.

Janis Faucher | April 2, 2008 11:01 AM link

So Liz wants universal health care. And she wants illegals to be able to stay here. So she wants to provide universal health care to illegal aliens?

She's lost any level of credibility she might have previously had with me. I thought she might have been one of the good guys, but she's just a socialist like the rest of the RI Democrat Party.

Greg | April 2, 2008 11:30 AM link

Always supported her efforts in Cranston but between her health plan and her support of ILLEGAL immigrants, I think she has completely lost it. She certainly has lost my future vote.

meidi | April 2, 2008 3:57 PM link

This is yet another demonstration of the idiocy built in to our political system.

We gain nothing by having our primary and secondary state executives working against each other.

A Reader | April 2, 2008 4:04 PM link

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