Bill Clinton To Give Speech Defending Obamacare
Source: TPM Livewire
Bill Clinton To Give Speech Defending Obamacare
TOM KLUDT 9:08 AM EDT, WEDNESDAY AUGUST 28, 2013
Bill Clinton will go to bat for President Barack Obama next week when the former president delivers a speech in defense of the new federal health care law, MSNBC's Chuck Todd reported on-air Wednesday.
Clinton will deliver the speech next Wednesday at his presidential library in Little Rock, Ark.
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Demeter
(85,373 posts)Its critics, or reality?
Puzzledtraveller
(5,937 posts)Demeter
(85,373 posts)Reality has a way of winning.
Puzzledtraveller
(5,937 posts)I think it's going to be a debacle and I will be involved in this. I am a medicaid worker and I do not like it.
flpoljunkie
(26,184 posts)Obamacare is not single payer, but we were never going to get single payer. It is an unprecedented step toward universal healthcare, and we must do everything we can to see that it, not only succeeds, but is made better.
nevergiveup
(4,744 posts)Demeter
(85,373 posts)although they would like to think they do. The Republicans will probably be the force that actually gets us single payer, since the Democrats can't be bothered.
Myrina
(12,296 posts)Notosmuch universal healthcare.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)RobinA
(9,874 posts)somebody does. I guess it's too much to hope it will be during prime time.
forkol
(113 posts)All Bill really needs to do is put up a really big screen and replay the part of his DNC speech where he already defended it.
Although maybe some PSA's with him covering the bullet points, and highlighing the fact that it has reduced insurance costs in the states that have already implemented it might be a good idea as well. Play it during some popular red-state shows too, for that matter.