Washington Week: Obama continues push for health care reform
by Christopher Nelson | July 15, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Posted in obama, politics
A step forward in the push for healthcare reform {Thanks, AP}
As you see in today’s B’s cover story President Barack Obama intends to push for wide ranging health care reform.
Some say it’s the center piece of Obama’s domestic policy agenda.
Obama is speak now on the need for health care reform at the White House.
Earlier today a key Senate panel approved a bill which would allow for many Americans to have healthcare at a cost $600 billion.
It’s unclear if the House of Representatives will follow suit.
While the President wants a health care reform bill passed before the August recess many leaders in Washington say quick action is unadvised.
Senator Mitch McConnell the Senate’s Republican leader said it’d be a “rush and spend” move.
Also, in Washington the questioning of Mr. Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor continues.
Earlier today Maryland’s junior United States Senator Ben Cardin had an opportunity to ask questions of Judge Sotomayor for the first time.
There’s a brief wrap up of Cardin’s questioning a few hours earlier.
You can read Senator Cardin’s opening remarks from Monday here.
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A lot of us who got Mr. Obama into the White House are overweight or otherwise physically unfit. I propose that we use the same grass roots energy that got him where he is to make the health care plan successful by simply walking fifteen minutes a day after dinner. Citizens who are smokers, have mild arthritis, or are obese are capable of doing this. Why? That tiny increment of effort, spread over all of his currently less physically fit supporters, can deliver enough lowered blood pressure, lost weight, strengthened knees and backs and other benefits to alter the statistics to where the medical industry need not fear the numbers they expect if health care passes, because all of those benefits of walking will lead to lower costs. We talked for the man; now, we need to Walk For The Man. - Playfair