Story Created:
Aug 31, 2009 at 5:59 PM CDT
Story Updated:
Aug 31, 2009 at 6:03 PM CDT
From West Plains Sen. Claire McCaskill boarded a plane to come to Springfield. The line to get in the Gillioz Theatre wrapped around the block.
When all 1,130 seats were filled, there was a prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance and then the questions started.
The senator touched on many of the same issues that came up in West Plains.
She said not one federal dime will go to abortion. She said she will insist that members of congress also have to be on the plan and she tried to make the connection between the uninsured and your rising health costs.
“You get hit by a car they will take you to the hospital and fix you and then they'll get on the phone to the insurance companies and they'll say those angioplasties you've been getting they're going to become more expensive. The babies we have been delivering they'll be more expensive," McCaskill explained.
Above all else the one message the Senator wanted to get across to everyone was to read the health care bill. You can read the Senate’s version of the health care bill online; just follow the link in the “Related Content” box of this story.
The bill is more than 600 pages long. Sen. McCaskill says she has read the entire thing.
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