Sounds like a bogus rumor, here's an article from the times...never mentioned anything of the sort. Hate the rumors around here.
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BRISTOL, Va. (AP) -- President Barack Obama was greeted by about 200 people protesting his health care overhaul at a Virginia supermarket Wednesday and he told workers that the government was not taking over the system.
Obama was met with signs that read: "Obamacare is political malpractice" and "Keep your hands off my health care."
"I saw some signs," he told about 100 Kroger cashiers, baggers, deli workers and managers. He said he knew "folks were all riled up."
The session at Kroger came just days after Tennessee-based Remote Area Medical staged a 10th annual free clinic in nearby Wise, Va., that treated more than 2,700 poor people for decaying teeth, fading eyesight and other maladies. The turn-away crowd came from Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky.
Outside the Kroger with the protesters, Bristol art teacher Angie Meade, 39, agreed that health reform is needed but worried that "just like welfare, when you give control to the government, nothing really good comes of it."
Standing beside her, 49-year-old unemployed electrician Grant Robison of Blountville, Tenn., said he couldn't afford health insurance when he had a job and worried about being forced into some "government plan" under Obama.
Then Elaine Powers, 69, of Bristol, spoke up. She said she was told by a friend, who heard it from a nurse at the doctor's office, that anyone over 65 under the Obama initiative would be treated as if they were about to die. "They say all they will give you is a pain pill," she said.
Obama came to Bristol - his first stop after winning the Democratic nomination - after a similar town hall session in Raleigh, N.C. Kroger provides health insurance to 80 percent of its workers at a cost of more than $1 billion a year.
Obama's Bristol health meeting draws protesters - Kingsport Times-News Online
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