Giuliani does nationwide business call
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- October
- 30
Rudy Giuliani hosted a call-in radio show back in the days when he was mayor of the city of New York.
He was in New York City Tuesday afternoon when he did something similar.
It was a nationwide conference call with about 2,500 members of the National Federation of Independent Business, the National Restaurant Association and the Associated Builders and Contractors.
The three trade groups teamed up for what was the second of a series of “Tuesday Town Halls’’ with presidential candidates.
According to Sue Hensley of the National Restaurant Association, last week’s session with Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, who is also running for president, drew 2,000 participants in the question-and-answer conference call.
How did it go?
All told, Giuliani took six questions on topics ranging from trade with China to immigration and government use of eminent domain.
Antoinette from Illinois was interested in what Giuliani had to say about his opposition to socialized medicine and wanted to know if he has seen Michael Moore’s film, “Sicko.’’ He hasn’t. Well, she continued by noting she’s Italian and has been to Italy, which has socialized medicine, and to Canada, which also does. She and her husband pay $800 a month for health insurance because they are self-employed owners of a small construction company.
She didn’t exactly formulate a question with her observations, but Giuliani synthesized it all. He recommended a recent Wall Street Journal article on Italy’s problems with socialized medicine. He said he has a new radio ad in New Hampshire that talks about his bout with prostate cancer and how the cure rate is 82 percent in the U.S. compared to 44 percent in England. He also got in a pitch for Health Savings Accounts.
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