Finally, one Republican Senator gets it right about health care
- December 28, 2009
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- Posted in Health Insurance, Latest Posts
Read excerpts from this inspiring talk about health-care reform, by Connecticut’s Republican ex-Senator and governor, Lowell Weicker. He puts the moral case for reform better than anything else I’ve seen for many months.
Weicker still has his Senate health insurance. It covers himself, his wife and his disabled son for some $300-plus a month. “So, I know Congress can take care of itself,” he says. “Now we need to remind them that they have to take care of the rest of the country.”
Another excerpt: “Much of the hostile dialogue has been created by people who want health care to fail — people who profit monetarily from the status quo and people who hope to profit politically. But such profits come only at the expense of helping the rest of us achieve better health.” How wonderful to see truth breaking out from a political moderate in CT. Too bad the state’s sitting Senator Lieberman and the Blue Dog “moderates” still don’t get it. (Hat tip to Sam Stein at Huffington Post for spotting this.)
Tags: health insurance reform
Tags: health insurance reform
Does health care reform really have any chance now after the political defeat in MA?
I hope so, but the bill might get worse as more compromises have to be made.