Chicago<\/span> Tribune-November 17, 1997 But we’re a long ways from there.\u00c2\u00a0 Theoretically it’s covered in the Pritchett penned essay, but the then state legislator now President has since trimmed his sails again and again, arguably right into the presidential campaign and right into this Senate session and is still being\u00c2\u00a0pegged as “Socialist Radical” by LiebermanNelsonSouthernDemocratBunchies — the first one’s goal seems in large part little more than to gratify himself with this sort of limelight:<\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0Reaching the point where the Bill can only be measured as either better than the current system by default, or not.\u00c2\u00a0 What it is is a Rube Goldberg device designed to swerve through the “World’s Greatest Deliberative Body” — an artificial device birthed by unholy artificial legislative structure, not organic policy designed to meet the needs of the people.\u00c2\u00a0 And what is insuffrable about it is that is projecting to an Obama administration after a sort of customary and unremarkable two or three seat loss in the Senate in 2010 — imagine a 57 to 43 Democratic advantage.\u00c2\u00a0 That is still a heafty party majority, and yet unless it clears the way to a sort of “‘Moderate’ Republican” some cover for the same sometimes unremarkable policies that doesn’t exist right now with the Democrats whose being is marked by a definition of “bipartisan”, it becomes more gridlocking.\u00c2\u00a0 These are due to, I would suggest in part, the thought process of Harry Reid, as well what a Barack Obama imagines he wants to engage with.\u00c2\u00a0 At the moment I’d almost want this thing to be scuttled and a small bore bill of three relatively tepid by tangible reforms to fall into place as a “Health Insurance”<\/p>\n OR is the pressure point looking something like?:<\/p>\n Now, granted the people shouting out that he should have called for “Single Payer” than compromised from there miss the fact that, in American politics sucha program would have been a non-starter and written off from the get-go by the mass of American politicians and “opinion-makers”.\u00c2\u00a0 But what needed to be done was for the president to start with somet<\/p>\n There was an impression and label for Obama, contradicting the “Audacity of Hope” “Fierce Urgency of Now”, which followed through the campaign.\u00c2\u00a0 Obama is “Cool” and “Collect”.\u00c2\u00a0 It garnered him a good slice of the electorate for a small “c” conservative outlook\u00c2\u00a0looking for a line of “Stability”, and the appeal lied in the man looking past petty politial contrivances.\u00c2\u00a0 This came with the claim to “watch the campaign” to see how he would govern.\u00c2\u00a0 It came against a Hillary Clinton, liable to take a wild swing in concocting stories about Bosnian Snipers, and against a John McCain, liable to select a very odd running mate or to bolt during an economic emergency.\u00c2\u00a0 The problem with this is it makes for a President unwilling to “rock the boat”, and we see it with acceptance of the status quo and unremarkable allowances to the Banking Industry in getting the Economy Running again — no heads are going to crack.\u00c2\u00a0 The irony is that the Lou Pritchett style opponents\u00c2\u00a0(worrying\u00c2\u00a0that at the end of a second Obama term the man will have effectively silenced the usual suspects of talk radio and menacingly enough destroyed his ability to mass viral forward\u00c2\u00a0this email message) seized upon a line about “remaking America”<\/a> — and he was by his campaign type temperamentally not apt to do such a thing even when called for.\u00c2\u00a0 We can brush up the charges leveled against President Eisenhower, except with\u00c2\u00a0that chorus of boos along the lines of\u00c2\u00a0the most fervent\u00c2\u00a0haters of President Roosevelt threw out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Thrill of Victory; the Agony of Defeat.\u00c2\u00a0 Or The Fierce Urgency of Now; the Audacity of Hope.\u00c2\u00a0 One or the other.\u00c2\u00a0 It was in part a way to rationalize or make an advantage of a vote for less executive or legislative experience.\u00c2\u00a0 There are other ways to dissect those two phrases and what they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5050,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5046\/revisions\/5050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nUNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE PROPOSED
\nInvoking the name of Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, a group of physicians and legislators Sunday announced they will seek an amendment to the state constitution<\/span> to guarantee health care coverage<\/span> for all state residents.
\n\u00c2\u00a0Despite the popularity of Bernardin, however, such a measure would face overwhelming odds against winning approval. Previous efforts to institute universal health care coverage in Illinois<\/span> have failed over the years, primarily because of the massive tax increases that would be required to fund such programs.
\nThe proposed “Bernardin Amendment” would use prose directly from the cardinal’s 1995 pastoral letter to establish health care as a basic right of Illinois citizens and require the General Assembly to enact a plan that permits everyone in Illinois to obtain decent health care<\/span> on a regular basis by 2002.
\n“What a fitting way to honor Cardinal Bernardin, who was a voice of conscience, courage and compassion in the health care dialogue,” Dr. Quentin Young, president of the American Public Health Association, said at a news conference at the James R. Thompson Center in Chicago.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0
\nYoung noted that more than 1.3 million Illinois residents–about 11 percent of the state population–are uninsured. According to Voices for Illinois Children, some 300,000 children also lack health care coverage.
\nRep. Michael Boland (D-East Moline<\/span>) said he will introduce the measure in the Illinois House in January. State Sen. Barack Obama<\/span> (D-Chicago), he said, has agreed to introduce the measure in the Senate.<\/em><\/p>\n![\"Health](\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/liebermanhealthcaremeetthepresspointer1.jpg\" "\\"Health")
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