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...helped pass, we were able to come to this country many years ago and build a new life. His countless good deeds on behalf of the common man will reverberate in our nation's soul. The best tribute his colleagues in Congress can bestow is the health-care-reform bill that was his life's cause and that he worked so hard for but, sadly, did not live to see enacted. Farewell to a true patriot. Cheers Echevarria-Leary, PINOLE, CALIF...
...Harvard study released last week found that an estimated 45,000 deaths each year are associated with a lack of health insurance coverage—a finding that is likely to bolster the case for health insurance reform currently being debated in Congress this fall...
...frustration and even rage we've seen during the debate over health-care reform has been really staggering. You talk to people for a living - did you know what kind of anger was simmering out there? I did, and it's in my book. You can pull out paragraphs on how mad people were about pork-barrel spending, about taxes and about the lack of accountability [in Washington.] You had all these people who were mad, but there wasn't a spark that would cause them to get involved. Health care became that spark...
...John Cornyn, a Texas Republican who heads the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which helps get Republican candidates elected to the Senate. "They see Democrats rush this thing through, strong-arming their way through, and that will make folks even more nervous." (See the top 10 players in health-care reform...
Those same voters are what kept Republicans Senators Mike Enzi and Chuck Grassley at the bargaining table long after all expectations had died that they would ever sign on to a deal: as much as they would be happy to kill health-care reform, Republicans want to make the case that they gave bipartisanship their all. In fact, both cited "partisan deadlines" as reasons that they couldn't vote for the bill...