In declaring that every American should have Health Care by the end of the next Presidential administration, thus far light on specifics,\u00c2\u00a0Barack Obama has, once again, converged paths with John Edwards — who made the statement that the next president (or Democratic presidential candidate, I don’t remember) will need to take the issue of Health Care full bore, full coverage, no nibbling around the edges, no incrementalist talk along the lines of what the gun-shy Democratic Party states and restates on the issue, particularly since Hillary Clinton’s efforts in 1993 and 1994.<\/p>\n
I wonder something about Barack Obama’s statements, though.\u00c2\u00a0 He is a Senator.\u00c2\u00a0 He is a Senator with a large national following who carries a great deal of influence.\u00c2\u00a0 He is also in the Majority party.\u00c2\u00a0 Could he, maybe, flesh out his pronouncements on health care and formulate his ideas into a cohesive unit, called a Bill, and then pursue that bill on to what I guess would be, at best, President Bush’s veto pen?<\/p>\n
Hillary Clinton, for her part, is pursuing a “listening tour”, and wants to gather your, and by your I mean your<\/i>, ideas of what might work to improve our health care.\u00c2\u00a0 She, of course, is retiscent to move beyond that and suggest anything too massive — lest the ghost of 1993 – 1994 come back to bite her — and she also has an interest in replicating the much – mocked but ultimately politically successful “listing tour” aspect of her first Senate campaign.\u00c2\u00a0 I wounder if she might want to co-sponsor Senator Obama’s Health Care bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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