Wednesday
Aug052009
Senate Democrats Accuse Republicans Of Stalling Health Care Reform
Wednesday, August 5, 2009 at 3:34PM
By Mariko Lamb-Talk Radio News Service
A number of Democratic Senators said during a press conference Wednesday that the Senate Finance Committee will have a bipartisan health care bill passed by the end of this year, but accused Republicans and health insurance companies of hindering the bill's progress.
“Republicans’ role in this is all about ‘slow down, stop, and no’... that’s what the Republican leadership has been all about,” said Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH).
Republicans are implementing their “irresolution resolution,” said fellow HELP Committee member Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.). “Despite all the stories of real Americans: their heartache, their frustration, their anger, ultimately even their disgust with the health care system they're trapped in, [Republicans continue to] turn the most desperate domestic policy crisis in our country into political theater.”
In response to recent town hall protests against health care reform, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (W.V) said these protests disrupt the message. “The story becomes the disruption, not the message,” he said. “We’re utterly, desperately serious about it and we’re trying to interpret it to the people we represent who in our states desperately need it. We’re precluded from doing so by these types of tactics.”
“We’re still struggling in the Finance Committee, and that’s okay, because one thing that I’m very certain about is that we’re going to have a health care bill...and we’re going to have it by the end of this year,” he added.
A number of Democratic Senators said during a press conference Wednesday that the Senate Finance Committee will have a bipartisan health care bill passed by the end of this year, but accused Republicans and health insurance companies of hindering the bill's progress.
“Republicans’ role in this is all about ‘slow down, stop, and no’... that’s what the Republican leadership has been all about,” said Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH).
Republicans are implementing their “irresolution resolution,” said fellow HELP Committee member Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.). “Despite all the stories of real Americans: their heartache, their frustration, their anger, ultimately even their disgust with the health care system they're trapped in, [Republicans continue to] turn the most desperate domestic policy crisis in our country into political theater.”
In response to recent town hall protests against health care reform, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (W.V) said these protests disrupt the message. “The story becomes the disruption, not the message,” he said. “We’re utterly, desperately serious about it and we’re trying to interpret it to the people we represent who in our states desperately need it. We’re precluded from doing so by these types of tactics.”
“We’re still struggling in the Finance Committee, and that’s okay, because one thing that I’m very certain about is that we’re going to have a health care bill...and we’re going to have it by the end of this year,” he added.
Reader Comments (3)
When will the Dems and the Repubs start representing all the people, and not just a certain crowd? I am neither, and I vote for the person I think is the best for the job. Health care reform is needed, but not a government run Health Care. It seems the Dems are determined to have their way, now that they control Congress. Repubs are no different. "A house divided cannot stand". Trust me on this one.
Have a good one for ya...
NO more Ins. needed...
DUMP Medicade
Expand Medicare...no restrictions...
If Medicare only pays X amount then it is up to Doc/Hospital/Med to submit form to get any more they may say for extra costs..YOU do not need a Sup. Ins.
Then yes...give this as an option instead of what I get at work..
That would stem Ins. to bid and pull down costs across board...
Have another...
Fed/Gov/Congress....ALL of them..
They abandon there systems of retirement and Healthcare and be put on what we have now or what they purpose we go on...Then I'll consider it..maybe...but you know they won't...they love there's and WE the tax payers pay for it....