ASPEN — to immigration to North Korea, audience members at an Aspen town hall with Colorado’s Democratic U.S. senator on Friday covered most of today’s hot-button issues in the U.S.
But two questions from audience members with powerful personal stories related to those first two issues caught the attention of , who repeatedly referred to those queries throughout the hour-plus-long event at Aspen High School.
The first came from a man who told Bennet he pays $1,600 a month for health care for his family of four with a $7,000 deductible for each. The man pointed out he has just one insurance company option for health care in the Aspen area, and that all indications are that prices will continue to go up. If that happens, the man said his family will likely have to “go naked” without health care.
“You’re making choices nobody else in an industrialized country in the world has to make,” Bennet said. “It’s a huge problem.”
The second question to elicit an emotional response Friday came from a man who said two members of his immediate family were stuck in Mexico after trying to navigate the immigration process.
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