Baldwin Introduces Bipartisan Health Care Proposal
One of the nation's leading voices for healthcare reform, Wisconsin's own US Rep. Tammy Baldwin, today introduced a bipartisan proposal to break through the logjam accessable and affordable healthcare.
The Health Partnership through Creative Federalism Act (HR5683) would empower states, with the federal government's help, to find ways to insure the uninsured in their respective states. Each state could find a unique fit, in hopes of finding ways to address the problem the most effectively nationwide.
Baldwin's Republican opponent, Dave Magnum, has attacked Baldwin for not advancing healthcare despite her constant efforts on behalf of the issue.
Don't forget, it was Magnum's campaign that has taken on the weighty issues of protecting our borders (with Lake Mills?) and saying Baldwin called him a pig. I'm serious. Baldwin made a joke at a fundraiser with an anecdote about farm life, where if you get in the mud with pigs you wind up getting some on yourself.
To Magnum, that was a personal attack. I guess he must have felt his nasty campaign was a bit too much like pigs rolling in the slop. But that is the campaign Magnum is running. Too bad for him this healthcare proposal once again shows his attacks are without merit. Maybe we should go back to attacking foreigners, eh Dave?
Congratulations Tammy on another fine job done on behalf of healthcare.
posted by Mark Pocan @ 7:31 PM
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yea! Tammy!
Tammy Bladwin is useless. Name me anything she has done that has her name on it besides this one time healthcare plan. Until recently her website had her recent accomplishments as the speech she read at the 2004 DNC.
Until this Tammy was good for supporting a Violence against Women Act, furniture tipping, etc. what is next molesting children is bad and drinking and driving should not be done acts.
This "proposal" appears to be a repeat of the bill she tried the last couple of sessions. Quite frankly, this approach at "creative federalism" is not going to work because it amounts to basically an end run at universal, or single-payer, healthcare.
As far as your attacks on Magnum's campaign, you seem to be missing the point, sir. Magnum's focus on protecting our borders is a legitimate concern for a federal congressman. The strain that illegal immigration puts on our social safety-nets (healthcare and welfare) costs us millions of dollars a year in taxpayer money. Baldwin would do well to address the issues Magnum is raising rather than ignoring important issues.
Congratulations Tammy. Of course you realize that you are battling people who do not yet know that the public is already paying 100% for the current health care mess. When employers pay over $6000 per employee per year for health care, they add their costs to their product price and consumers reimburse them at the cash register. Unfortunately, our current privatized, for-profit system only covers 85% of the public.
Over 18,000 people per year die because they do not have health care, while Canada covers 100%. Because our system is driven by over 1500 for-profit insurance companies, our administrative costs are 30% compared to less than 10% in Canada. Health care in the US costs 15% of our nation’s GDP compared to 10% in Canada. Yet their life expectancy is two years longer and infant mortality 35% lower because women are given pre-natal care.
Where are our heads? Where are the heads of Corporate America who spends 15% of payroll costs for health care, and can’t compete with foreign companies that do not have to add health care to the price of their product, and thus move jobs overseas as a result?
We need a Medicare-for-all system that leaves hospitals and physicians as private contractors. But the health care interests give $100 million per year at the congressional level and $1.4 million at the state level to keep things exactly where they are; in a chaotic, costly mess in which they benefit.
I think Tammy is selfish. She makes $165,200/year and has not given ONE RED CENT to Fair Wisconsin. She has a partner who is a lawyer at Michael Best and she can't afford to give anything? Barney Frank gave $15, and he doesn't even live here. "Republican Hatchet Man" Todd Rongstad gave $50. When is she going to put her money where her mouth is? Talk is cheap.
P.S. I didn't see the Pocan name on that report either.....
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