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that is the senate's is the latest representative who has decided that he
will vote yes on at the health care reform
and we have the option of it
but first let's go to of
a flashback video number two where dennis kucinich
was talking about how he will vote no on health care reform and this is from
marty so
not too long ago
will you vote yes
for the senate bill
i told the president twice and i and see if it means
that i could support the bill today never robust public option benefit at
least if they didn't have uh... uh... some kind of something that was going to
protect consumers from these rapid
uh... premium increases in you know what uh...
the white house counsel is wavering the insurance companies are the problem
giving them a version of a bailout
so did we just got done all their cars will you vote against the senate bill at
the first stage of this process and this is is that sounded like you know you're
correct
at the white house
has known my position it's not a secret democratic leaders have done my position
that we need health care reform we need medicare for all we we need to join the
rest of the industrial world in being able to provide health care for people
is a basic right
uh... you know if if the white house is ready to
go back and have a robust public option is jacob hacker iterated i was on twenty
five million people being able to
negotiate knock down
it sure is premiums then we have something to talk about but otherwise
uh... union
i need to agreed to hear more about what they're proposing in what they propose
so far as anything different than i voted against
when you say the president democrats who say
let's get this past and then we can build on it with future legislation
you're building on stand
there's no structure here your billing on a foundation of privatization of our
health care system
that's the problem insurance companies are the problem there nothing to build
on we build our hopes and the insurance companies in order and is more poverty
in this country
all right well he
did a complete one eighty
all right and today he went out and i had a press conference where he said
that he will in fact a vote in favor
for the health care reform
and um... we have the you know that so let's go to that video idea number three
fired up about the job
i do not think it is a step toward anything i've supported in the past
this is not the bill i wanted to support
even as i continue efforts until the last minute
to try to modify the bill
after careful discussions
with president obama
speaker pelosi
my wife elizabeth and close friends
i've decided to cast abode
in favor of the legislation
that's my vote is to be counted
but it count now
for passage of the bill
hopefully
in the direction of comprehensive
health care reform
ride
by parted
on
it
yet it was great
uh...
laa we talked about this before without that video is has the uh... talk shows
like the looks of it
and close friend and close friends and helped him make his decision to in fact
vote for
the health care about bumping into with it with that speech india and it
it demonstrates what this really s and that is people running for office
people are running for reelection
that was a campaign speech that was a i've spoken with my wife
i've spoken with my minister might freeze to my rabbi whatever it is
really what this is his people
uh... running
for poor poor and either in percentages is you know but i did
i admire the crusader in him and he's right in many respects
what this moment is coming down to is candies
uh... ten members of congress
uh... get re-elected
pendiente because the voters coming on saturday or sunday and so they're really
does having to basically
state their case to their home districts i mean he made that announcement there
uh...
you're you're seeing
the crusader turn pragmatist
because the boat is way too close in the end for him to even ator that he wants
to be
this ralph nader character basically says
uh... i'm not going forth yet
uh... well atleast you staking out a position
and in other words if he's maintaining the no vote on this
need them been the legislation is actually in jeopardy
the legislation is actually in jeopardy but
is that necessarily a bad thing
i mean there are a lot of things about the bill that i'd personally don't think
are great for instance the federal mandate which basically forces you to
buy health insurance forces you to fund describe insurance companies
that happens greatness over for so long
i'm not okay with that
and need to have a federal mandate without a public option
again the money is going into the pockets of these private insurance
companies and i'm not okay with that
of course the arabic parts of the bill for instance they're not allowed to drop
you uh... a health insurance companies are not allowed to drop you due to a
pre-existing condition or you know something like that but
it's to water down i'm not happy about it i know jane hampshire from
firedoglake isn't happy about it and she makes a really interesting point
uh...
and and we do something about that as the senate of do you think this
insurance reform how we have heard small incremental it is
is worth
passing
these or is it something that should be and kept it in
in toto
in the end
even though i'm not happy with the bell and there are things that i definitely
dislike about it
i would rather see attacks because is a very very small step toward something
that
something greater something that we really do need no we do you think that's
what or bob will set the percentage went beholden to the white house how do i do
think that that sort of on the set to him
because when you really think about it what is our other option
our other option is too
stop
with this bill ok vote no and then what's gonna happen then we're not going
to have any type of reform
and i'm not necessarily for that either
cell you know this is a small step and yes is a watered-down bill it's not
great
in the end i do believe that that is the city's did the right thing moped art is
doing the right thing on the end of it that you have to do with brian mentioned
you have to
basically
listen to your constituents when your constituents want
unfortunately right now when it comes to health care reform a lot of different
polls are indicating that uh...
people are split
uh... when it comes to public opinion for health care people don't know
whether or not there really
uh...
interested in passing his belt
sellecca
i think that in the end of the date that is considered to be so listen to his
constituents
and he said you know what he thinks is right and he said you know
i think we should stop calling it health care reform which we call it with maybe
it's not a magnet surrogate in insurance reform bill
okay that's what it is it's basically what we've got now at this point
insurance reform is going to have to be fought another day and down down the
road serious reform
that is people getting access to care who can't
i mean dot that's as a single-payer system of the things that we went in
thinking that could be
reform really
sort of
labeled as extreme an on american and pushed aside
so they were more wine along with the entire country canada and the rest of
the dust realize world who has a system that has real reform in the system it
was called socialized medicine and all this *** right before we left here
is basically
uh... a bill that that kind of put some controls and
on the insurance industry and i think if we did
approach that if we're going to go and promote the wave just call it that then
i think we succeed
in some respects in some respects but it's certainly let you know it some
there he'd there there's institute it's not the before
that that everybody had hoped for who want to perform
angry
if you like this clip
lobo show you can watch that at the intersection