Barney: you have healthcare for life and your job was to help others have it too

[CreekDog]

you don't NOT do something because there is some political risk. political power is supposed to DO things, important things.

or else what's the point of it?



(Besides! Does he think financial reform would have been any easier, or have done anything nearly as large? I like Barney Frank and his candor is almost always right --but it's wrong today)

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/barney-frank-dems-should-have-backed-off-on?ref=fpblg

Barney Frank: Dems Should Have Backed Off On Health Care Reform

Retiring Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) says with the benefit of hindsight that Democrats should have slowed their push for health care reform in 2009 and 2010, to prioritize other issues, and paid a huge political price for their persistence. In so doing, he’s allowed Republicans to box in vulnerable Dems who voted for what ultimately became ‘Obamacare.’

“I think [President Obama] underestimated, as did Clinton, the sensitivity of people to what they see as an effort to make them share the health care with poor people,” Frank said in an interview with New York Magazine. I think we paid a terrible price for health care. I would not have pushed it as hard. As a matter of fact, after Scott Brown won, I suggested going back. I would have started with financial reform but certainly not health care.”

[BeyondGeography]

1. Awful stuff