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Pelosi says that despite Mass. loss, health care reform will continue
Tony Ondrusek is founder and publisher of Insurance & Financial Advisor and IFAwebnews.com.
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Perhaps I’m dense. Perhaps I was wrong when I saw that a Massachusetts Republican who ran squarely against the Reid/Pelosi/Obama health care reform initiative, and who won in a state that is solidly Democrat and in a seat that has been held by Ted Kennedy and the Kennedy family for nearly 50 years, was reflecting the will of the voters. Perhaps the loss of Democrat governorships in Virginia and New Jersey, and the decision of major Democrat legislators not to run for re-election this year, was not actually a sign that the push for Obamacare was ill-advised.
Perhaps, as nearly everyone else who thinks that health care reform in its current form is on life support if not already dead, I am simply delusional.
After all, when leaving her office after hearing final election numbers in Scott Brown’s (R) defeat of Martha Coakley (D), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had this to say: “We will get the job done,” she said. “I am confident of that. I have always been confident of that.”
She added that the Massachusetts election was not that important. “Massachusetts has health care and so the rest of the country would like to have that too,” Pelosi said. “So we don’t [think] a state that already has health care should determine whether the rest of the country should.”
Speaking today, after having had an entire night and morning to reflect, Pelosi told a gathering of the U.S. Council of Mayors in Washington, D.C., that, despite the loss of a major Senate seat in Massachusetts and no longer having a majority in the Senate, that Congress “will move forward with those considerations [of Massachusetts voters] in mind — but we will move forward” with health care reform.
The 30-second video clip (below) of Pelosi speaking to the mayors is worth a million words. (If video doesn’t load, click here.)
6 Responses
- Matt Says:
January 20th, 2010 at 3:31 pmIf before, you weren’t sure that Pelosi was grinding an ax or not, this should be evidence enough to remove all doubt.
- Jon Says:
January 20th, 2010 at 3:48 pmShe is an idiot! Much the rest of the supporters of health care reform that think they better than all of the people in the US. It seems they just do not get it, America does not want their bill.
- MK Haze Says:
January 20th, 2010 at 6:02 pmThis woman is starting to look like an escaped mental patient, she’s sounded like one for some time. Her remarks are so out of touch you have to wonder if she’s even listening to the news.
- Miami Health Says:
January 24th, 2010 at 3:59 pmHealth reform is now officially dead and the sad part is that no one seems to care.
- Cigna Quote Says:
January 26th, 2010 at 12:16 pmWith health reform looking deader then the Jets Superbowl hopes, I must admit that I am now becoming cynical about America’s chances to ever have a fair health care system.
- united health care Says:
February 11th, 2010 at 5:16 pmThe voters of MA may have elected a pro-choice moderate but they certainly did not elect someone who “ran away from the party”. I recall them electing somone who promised to be the 41st vote against Obamacare; he campaigned as “Mr. 41″. I recall them electing someone who said the federal government should be focusing its efforts on disrupting terrorist plots instead of granting terrorists Constitutional rights and paying for their lawyers.
