On October 13, 2009
A Giant Step Toward Reform, But Still Far From It
Commenting on today’s landmark Senate Finance Committee vote on healthcare reform, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told Judy Woodruff on PBS’ Lehrer News Hour, “We are closer than ever in the history of this effort to getting health care reform to give people who have health care a sense of knowing that it will always be there and people who don’t have health care [the knowledge that they can obtain it] at an affordable price.” Now, I’m glad the Finance Committee voted as it did, and I admire both Emanuel and President Obama. But even though Congress is closer to passing healthcare reform than at any time in the past century, I would take issue with the…
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