OTHER OPINIONS : Blue Dogs lead pack
Posted: September 12, 2009 at 7:02 a.m.
MEMPHIS — The Blue Dog Democrats of the Mid-South say they can't be bought by health-care industry sources pumping thousands of dollars into their re-election campaign coffers, and that their decisions will be based on the needs of their constituents.
They should get a chance this fall to prove it. Their constituents need affordable, portable health-care insurance policies that they can't be excluded from for pre-existing conditions and that will quit rising in cost faster than their incomes. :
The best chance for an improved health-care system - for those among us who have insurance as well as those who don't - seems to lie in a reasonable compromise on the issue, perhaps incorporating a public plan into the system only if a more moderate approach fails to achieve the desired results. :
The situation calls for leadership, and it calls for action.
It calls for independence - a readiness to do what's best for the country's future, no matter how much money is being poured into the effort to defeat health-care reform or by whom.
That's the position stated by the Mid-South's Blue Dog Democrats. It would be a shame if they didn't get a chance to prove it.
- The Commercial Appeal (Memphis,Tenn.)
Opinion, Pages 3 on 09/12/2009
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