Gov. Gary Johnson to Discuss SCOTUS Health Care Ruling at Online Town Hall with Special Guest Kathryn Serkes
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
6:00 pm PDT / 7:00 pm MDT / 8:00 pm CDT / 9:00 pm EDT
Libertarian presidential candidate and former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson will hold an online Town Hall Tuesday at 9:00 pm Eastern / 6:00 pm Pacific to discuss the Supreme Court's ruling on the Affordable Care Act. Johnson will be joined for the online discussion by Kathryn Serkes of the Doctor Patient Medical Association.
Announcing the Town Hall, Johnson said, "Mitt Romney created the template. Barack Obama and his friends in Congress created the law. And now, the Supreme Court has found a way to say it is OK for the government to complete its takeover of Americans' health care.
"With the legal challenges to President Obama's health care law having failed, it is going to be up to the political system to repeal what may be the largest federal power grab in history. While Governor Romney's words about repealing the health care law sound good, the effort to put patients back in charge of their health needs a leader who has never advocated an individual government health care mandate.
"What Americans need is for health care to be affordable and accessible. A law that creates thousands of new IRS agents and fewer doctors will do just the opposite. Only a functioning marketplace will meet the real medical care needs of patients, and that is the debate we need to have."
Gov. Johnson's Town Hall will begin at 9:00 pm Eastern / 6:00 pm Pacific on July 3rd. It will be featured on Vokle.com. To ask questions via video or text, simply sign into your Facebook account or sign up for a Vokle account. If you just want to watch the Town Hall, go to www.GaryJohnson2012.com.
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