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He's taking his Tedstrong wristband off
By adamg on Thu, 03/25/2010 - 9:26am
CommonWealth interviews John McDonough, who has been fighting for universal health care for years, first as a state rep from JP, then as director of a statewide advocacy group and most recently as an aide to Ted Kennedy. He talks about the challenges for the new law and says the Senate election in Massachusetts wasn't really about health care, the Republicans blew it and Mitt Romney should be proud of his role in the whole thing, rather than just running away, again, from Massachusetts.
And he talks about the blue wristbands Kennedy staffers put on after Kennedy's diagnosis with brain cancer:
... After he passed way last August, a lot of us decided to continue wearing them until health reform was done. So a lot of us are finally taking them off.
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Don't take it off.
It ain't over yet...there's still a lot of work to do, and a lot of reform that needs to come.
Kennedy inspired millions of socialists
McDonough and his ilk are TOTAL HYPOCRITES -- Congress and their SENIOR STAFF are exempt from the same bill being "donated" to the American people. Scott Brown was unable to stop the vote on HCR because Dems used dirty tactics and backroom deals to avoid the supermajority, inspired by the Chicago political style of Barack and Rahm Emanuel. Socialist Democrats, including the remaining Kennedy's (God help us) are so hell-bent on further damaging their "bad" America, they should take their sorry a$$es and move to Venezuela. Hey, maybe that is what will happen in November.
Socialism it ain't.
How is it socialist to deliver 30 million more customers to private health-care companies? It's not like we've given the means of production over to the workers. We're just funneling more money to people in the top tier of the income bracket.
I feel bad for the people who toss around words like socialism without the benefit of understanding what they mean. Perhaps if we hadn't let the capitalist money-hounds take over the country our educational system would still cover things like this, and we'd have an informed public who could truly take responsibility for themselves.
Where's your Messiah now?
The left loves him for prompting the change in strategy, the right hates him for not burying the bill next to Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. Scott Brown... the loneliest kid on the playground.
You mean those wristbands in
You mean those wristbands in support of a murderer? Sounds like a cause the blue can really get in to.
Wow
I didn't know they were making George W. Bush wristbands. Driving more than 4,000 Americans and 90,000 to 100,000 Iraqi civilians to their deaths (not counting veteran suicides, converted extremist deaths, etc.) must warrant a real fancy bangle.
hmm...
Mary Jo's death was a tragedy, don't get me wrong, but don't be a hypocrite. The cause that the "red" was behind was to squash health care reform. 45,000 people die every year because they don't have access to health insurance and/or affordable health care. The Republicans (and Steve Lynch, among others) would have blood on their hands if this bill didn't pass. So don't be a hypocrite.
I'm certainly glad this
I'm certainly glad this reform has taken some of the excesses against people out of our current health provider systems. I do wonder though, in the years to come, if we can afford to subsidize the for profit apparatus, or if by saving the payment of dividends, and 18% administration cost as opposed to medicare's 3%, we might be wiser to allow people to essentially buy medicare.