Health care debate: More people want out

Political pundit Peggy Noonan, who writes a weekly column for the Wall Street Journal, has a precious personal anecdote from the health care reform bill drama.

Noonan, who was in Sarasota Jan. 25 to speak at an event to raise money for the Ringling College Library Association, tells Coffee Talk that a close friend of hers was scheduled for surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston Jan. 20 — the day after Scott Brown was elected as U.S. Senator in the Bay State to replace the late Ted Kennedy.

The friend texted Noonan from a gurney in the hospital, just before he was given anesthesia.