Senator Dodd remarks on the current state of health care reform

Gonna steal that picture of me filming you. :) (0.00 / 0)

Just seems like the right thing to do.


Drinking Liberally in New Milford
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by: Connecticut Man1 @ Tue Sep 29, 2009 at 00:29:06 AM UTC

Excellent video (0.00 / 0)

Great use of the two-camera setup, too!  Nicely done.

Connecticut Bob

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by: Bob Adams @ Tue Sep 29, 2009 at 11:48:57 AM UTC

on naming the public option for Sen Ted Kennedy -- (0.00 / 0)

afterward, Sen Dodd came up and thanked me for raising this idea -- it seemed to strike a chord with him.

Imagine the potential impact of the following scene:

Dodd holds a press conference on Capitol Hill, joined by Democrats from the HELP Committee, including the new chairman Sen Tom Harkin, and Democrats from the Finance Committee, including Sen Kerry of MA, and Senators Rockefeller, Schumer, Wyden, Stabenow, Cantwell (&others?) to announce they will name the HELP committee's public option for Teddy and work to include it in any final bill.

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by: catchlightning @ Tue Sep 29, 2009 at 13:22:27 PM UTC

Dodd Health Care Assertion re Only Piece of Legislation That Affects 100% (0.00 / 0)

It was a well-turned phrase, but the fact is that many, many pieces of legislation affect 100% of Americans. Frankly, I think that's a problem that many legislators have: they view legislation as affecting only a segment of the population. Let's take tax cuts for the wealthy. You don't think that those tax cuts adversely affect the remaining 99% of the population? Forgive me, but much as I want single-payer and will likely have to settle for a watered-down public option, I believe that our society is interconnected and poor health care or no health care for undocumented workers affects us all and not just in terms of productivity.

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by: Route66 @ Tue Sep 29, 2009 at 18:34:55 PM UTC