Finger biting incident at health care protest

It's interesting that Obama's health care reform is quickly becoming one of the most memorable moments in political history.

From it's inception, it has caused many people to debate the issue, and express anger in ways that you would never have expected from a plan that is intended to bring well-being.

Recently, William Rice, a 65-year-old man from Newbury Park had one of his fingers partially bitten off during a health care reform protest organized by the liberal political action group MoveOn.org.

You know the debate over health care reform has "gotten really ugly," said Matthew Shaer in The Christian Science Monitor, "when people start losing body parts."

Rice, confirmed reports that he threw the first punch in the confrontation that claimed part of his left pinky.

“When he got in my personal space, I popped him in the nose,” Rice said. “I felt like I had no choice other than to defend myself.”

Rice's trip to the emergency room was covered by Medicare, but unfortunately doctors were not able to reattach it.  Doctor's informed him -- the finger, severed near the second knuckle, would not survive because it had been cut by a human bite.

This finger-biting incident takes the "crazy" health care smackdown to a new level, said Chris Good in The Atlantic. During Congress' August recess, "there were death threats against members of Congress," and "people screaming at each other"—even fighting—at town hall events. "Hopefully we, as a nation, can make it to Congress's return next Tuesday without biting off any more appendages."