Krugman: Obama surrogate undermined Clinton's health care plan in 1993-4

[rodeodance]

Forum Name General Discussion: Primaries
Topic subject Krugman: Obama surrogate undermined Clinton's health care plan in 1993-4
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4655682, Krugman: Obama surrogate undermined Clinton's health care plan in 1993-4
Posted by johan helge on Mon Feb-18-08 11:54 PM

Krugman (http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/bad-health-care-omens /):

Bad health care omens

This is disturbing:

Mike Lux, a veteran of the Clinton health care wars, pointed out today that Obama is using as a surrogate on health care Bush Dog Democrat Jim Cooper. Cooper spent a good amount of time in 1993-1994 working to undermine Clinton’s health care plan by offering more insurance friendly proposals with former Senator and current lobbyist John Breaux.

This fits in with my sense, based on everything we’ve seen in this campaign, that Obama just isn’t all that committed to health care reform. If he does make it to the White House, I hope he proves me wrong. But as I’ve written before, from my perspective it looks as if a dream is dying.

[katty]

1. very interesting