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Monday, July 20, 2009
What the Health Care Debate Is About
I don't link to Bill Moyers anywhere near as often as I should.
If you're wondering why health care reform is such a problem, this 3-minute video essay by Moyers gives some hints.
The South Carolina senator who hasn't been "hiking the Appalachian Trail" pronounced last week that "If we're able to stop Obama on [health care], it will be his Waterloo. It will break him." And a Republican doesn't need a better reason to make sure that millions of Americans don't get health care at a reasonable cost. They're the political party with "values", remember.
Today Obama had a response:
The Obama video link is through Talking Points Memo. Did you catch the blooper?
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