GAINESVILLE - Ninth District Congressman Nathan Deal said Tuesday the "landscape" of health care reform "changed dramatically" during the August congressional recess.
Deal, a Gainesville Republican who is also running for governor, was on the Martha Zoller Show on WDUN NEWS TALK 550.
He, like other members of Congress, is preparing to return to Washington after a summer break, where the health care issue is still on the front-burner. Deal said he thinks members of Congress have heard "a great reaction to any further intrusion into people's private lives and the way they handle private affairs, including their own health insurance."
Deal tried a new way of reaching out to his constituents during the summer recess this year: telephone town hall meetings. He held two of them - basically dealing with health care - and says he was very well pleased with the outcome.
"And, we had as many as, like, 19,000 people on the phone lines at one time and I think it is one of those indications that people are concerned about this issue (health care reform)," commented Deal.
Deal also participated in two "traditional" town hall meetings on health care during the break, one in Gainesville and one in Dalton.
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