HEALTH-CARE REFORM 2009

The following is a couple of excerpts from an article written by Dana Milbank of the Washington Post on Tuesday July 21, 2009
( Regarding a speech given by RNC Chairman Michael Steele at the National Press Club )

Led by Steele, the Republicans are making no secret of their aims: kill health reform this

year, leaving the millions of uninsured to wait for another day and another proposal. And one way to do that is to make it appear that the Democrats are heedlessly hurrying. "The

president is rushing this experiment through Congress so fast, so soon," Steele reasoned,
revisiting his "too much, too fast, too soon" formulation four times in his speech.

On its face, the accusation that the Democrats are moving too quickly seems difficult to
maintain. For 16 years they've been laboring to expand health insurance, and proposals have
been grinding their way through five congressional committees. Then there's the small detail
that Obama and the Democrats made health-care reform a central component of last year's
election, which they won resoundingly.

The chairman referred carefully to his text as he delivered his broadsides: "big government
wish list . . . urge to splurge . . . shove this bill through . . . Obama-Pelosi-Reid-Waxman
cabal . . . reckless . . . unprecedented intrusion." After more than 20 minutes of this,
Steele devoted a few minutes to a Republican alternative: online posting of prices and
outcomes for tests and procedures; a single, simplified billing form; paperless health-care
systems; preventive care; portability of health coverage between jobs. He neglected to
mention the awkward detail that all of these are included, in some form, in the Democrats'
health-care legislation -- which he labeled socialist.

Read the whole article here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/20/AR2009072002484.html?hpid%3D

Look it up,
Ed