Howard Dean: Senate health compromise ‘a positive step forward’
OPS_admin | Dec 09, 2009 | Comments 0
After a day of wrangling and heated negotiations in the Senate over health care reform, one of the most trusted progressive voices in the nation championed the latest compromise reached by Democrats.
“I judge all these plans by whether they move things forward or move things backward,” Dean said on the CBS Early Show Wednesday. “This moves things forward.”
The talks considerably weakened — if not eliminated — the much-discussed public insurance option, instead opting to increase coverage by expanding Medicare, a government-run single-payer program.
“Medicare is a very, very effective program,” he said. “Everybody over 65 is in it, it works very well.”
Though Dean has been a vocal champion of the public option, he reaffirmed that progressive goals of lowering costs and covering more people can be achieved in different ways.
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