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There have been committee meetings, numerous ideas and discontent from both sides of the health care reform debate.
Some Rolla residents are taking to the streets to express their opinion on the issue.
“We want to make people more aware of the issue,” said John Raiford, a 22-year-old environmental engineering student at Missouri S&T.
Raiford was out on North Bishop Avenue in front of the St. John’s Clinic on Wednesday in support of health care reform. He said the goal wasn’t necessarily to change people’s minds but to get them thinking.
He was flanked by two friends, Samantha Apperson and Brad Cook, both 20 years old.
“I don’t see why so many people are against it,” Raiford said of opposition to reform.
Raiford cited his own family’s troubles with health-care bills as the reason behind his support of reform. He said they are deep in debt because his sister is receiving treatment for cancer and his mother has needed care because of several car accidents she has been in.
A health-care bill was introduced last week by Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives and came with a $1 trillion price tag.
Democratic leaders in the U.S. Senate proposed their own health care plan in June. Voting along strict party lines, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee approved the plan last week, which also projected to cost also $1 trillion.
Raiford and his friends didn’t have any grand plans for reform — just their sign and guitars.
In about 10 minutes the group received about half-a-dozen honks in response to their sign.
Negative responses were few and were often mild according to the group.
Instead, the goal was about awareness on the issue. Even if the effect was a woman going home and telling her husband she saw them on the street, that would be good enough for the group.
That is why the trio had chosen to stand out in front of St. John’s Clinic — plenty of traffic.
“I don’t have any bad feelings about St. John’s — its just a health care facility with a lot of traffic,” Raiford said.
There have been committee meetings, numerous ideas and discontent from both sides of the health care reform debate.
Some Rolla residents are taking to the streets to express their opinion on the issue.
“We want to make people more aware of the issue,” said John Raiford, a 22-year-old environmental engineering student at Missouri S&T.
Raiford was out on North Bishop Avenue in front of the St. John’s Clinic on Wednesday in support of health care reform. He said the goal wasn’t necessarily to change people’s minds but to get them thinking.
He was flanked by two friends, Samantha Apperson and Brad Cook, both 20 years old.
“I don’t see why so many people are against it,” Raiford said of opposition to reform.
Raiford cited his own family’s troubles with health-care bills as the reason behind his support of reform. He said they are deep in debt because his sister is receiving treatment for cancer and his mother has needed care because of several car accidents she has been in.
A health-care bill was introduced last week by Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives and came with a $1 trillion price tag.
Democratic leaders in the U.S. Senate proposed their own health care plan in June. Voting along strict party lines, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee approved the plan last week, which also projected to cost also $1 trillion.
Raiford and his friends didn’t have any grand plans for reform — just their sign and guitars.
In about 10 minutes the group received about half-a-dozen honks in response to their sign.
Negative responses were few and were often mild according to the group.
Instead, the goal was about awareness on the issue. Even if the effect was a woman going home and telling her husband she saw them on the street, that would be good enough for the group.
That is why the trio had chosen to stand out in front of St. John’s Clinic — plenty of traffic.
“I don’t have any bad feelings about St. John’s — its just a health care facility with a lot of traffic,” Raiford said.
