Sunday's health reform confab with U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and U.S. Senator Arlen Specter at the U.S. Constitution Center was right out of the 700 level of Veteran's Stadium. Booing, shouting, cheering. I didn't hear too many expletives, but it was nasty. If anything, it shows that changes to the health care system have many people concerned, to put it mildly. Potential Specter rival, U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak had his taste of it on Saturday.
Tomorrow, Sestak, who has not officially declared a run against Specter, promises a major campaign announcement. Hmmm. Wonder what that will be. On Saturday, he assembled a plethora of panelists who could offer assistance to the many unemployed and struggling families in his district, which includes parts of Delaware, Chester and Montgomery counties.
Sestak said he thinks he and his fellow Democrats haven't done a good enough job selling health care changes to the protesters who showed up at his event at Interboro High School on Saturday.
The way he sees it, health insurance, as it is, has just become too big a burden. Workers lose their coverage when they lose their jobs. That shouldn't happen. Workers take jobs that they don't want so they can get health insurance. That means that they may be not utilizing their talents fully. Small businesses lose talented employees to competitors who offer health insurance. Meanwhile, taxpayers are paying the price when the uninsured show up in emergency rooms. Whether Sestak can help Obama sell the plan remains to be seen.
But there is no doubt that health care coverage is a huge issue for the unemployed.
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Joe is right. Health care is too costly we pay the highest prices in the world and all we get is the best survival rates in the world. The best research in the world. If you get sick I want you to go to Canada and see how you get treated. I would rather be in the country that spends the most on health care(because we value it) than the worst. Give it a rest or you will do what the evil Bush couldnt, destroy the U.S.— rgreen72- democrats are promoting it as the cure all yet they voted not to be included and to retain the cadillac coverage they have now. It's good enough for us but not them!!— gerryb
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