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Bill Clinton: Pass health overhaul

Don’t focus on perfection, he tells senators

By Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Staff and Wire Reports

Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Md., center, accompanied by Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C., left, and Sen. Paul Kirk, D-Mass., gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, to discuss health care reform.

Photo by Charles Dharapak / AP

Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Md., center, accompanied by Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C., left, and Sen. Paul Kirk, D-Mass., gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, to discuss health care reform.

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Former President Bill Clinton urged Senate Democrats on Tuesday to pass health-care legislation by year’s end, pointedly telling skittish lawmakers that an imperfect bill is preferable to another failure like the one he and the party endured in 1994.

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This article was published November 11, 2009 at 5:05 a.m.

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rickneal5858_yahoo.com says...

Oh former President Clinton,
Did you listen to yourself? Basically what I heard is, "Forget about doing this the right way. Let us just forge ahead, damn the torpedoes!" Everytime I find something to admire about you, and I have found plenty, you shoot yourself in the foot with some tremendously stupid remark like this one regarding healthcare.
America has the best healthcare in the world. Accessible to all. We just have a greedy, cheating insurance dynasty that is focused on separating the sick from all the money they can while paying the doctors and hospitals as little as possible. If people were really smart they would pay their insurance premiums directly to the hospitals and let the hospitals hire the doctors. Screw the insurance companies, they don't provide any medical care and they sure don't protect our rights during any illness. How about it doctors?
Hospitals? Users of the healthcare system? Ready to get rid of that third party called an insurance company?

November 11, 2009 at 2:35 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

Lfraz43 says...

This is sort of like the VAT tax Pelosi is touting. If the Government gets this passed then it will be invisible, buried in the price of goods and services, so people won't readily recognize that they are paying the tax. Then whenever a wasteful Government, as we have, wants to waste more of the taxpayers money they just tick up the tax percentage and you just think it's inflation or something. You don't see the tax increase. This is what the Democrats want to do to Health Care. Just get something passed then with the current system out of the way the only thing left is this Liberal Left, Freedom killing, Government run Health Care.

Write your Congressman! Today, tomorrow and the next day and tell them NO!

November 12, 2009 at 6:45 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

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