"The history of the US health insurance industry" [podcast 6 min 16 sec]

The conversation around health care has heated up in recent weeks, especially at town hall meetings. Lawmakers have faced heckling, booing and constituents fighting with each other. Today, President Obama held the second of his forums. He spoke from an airplane hangar in Belgrade, Montana. Obama's town hall meeting earlier this week in Portsmouth, N.H drew attention due to a protester wearing a gun. He was also carrying a sign that included part of the Thomas Jefferson quote:"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Some of the rhetoric being used by conservative radio hosts includes references to nazism - which is being repeated in blogs and on-line forums and by people at town halls. And, as FSRN’s Leigh Ann Caldwell reports, the current discourse echoes that of the past.