romney has also taken sensible positions, but he has reversed course on all of them and is even running against the health care model he signed into law in massachusetts. mike bloomberg criticizes mr. romney specifically for flip-flopping and dropping his previous positions on climate change then says, this issue is too important. we need determined leadership at the national level. in other words, i don t think we re going to get determined leadership from mitt romney. i think he has taken occasionally attractive positions, but leadership, no. speaking to you from new york city, this storm and its aftermath, this externality to the big election is a big enough deal that it is not surprising it s having an effect on the election. its exact effect i think is still unknown. i am, i think, its exact effect could not have been foretold. i m not sure we know exactly where it s going to end up, but there s been an important, important development in the
testimony for the passage of the affordable care act is that people get sicker. that when they do go to the hospital finally, because they re so dramatically sick, it takes a lot more, if they ever do recover, it s a lot more invasive, often surgery or long hospitalization is required. and then they re bankrupt as the governor says. so it is the wrong way for it. that s why the affordable care act is so critical for full implementation so that people in our nation, especially those who live at the economic margins who don t get health care through their employers, that they can have coverage. it s essential for us as a nation. governor dean, as a politician analyzing another politician, what do you think is going on here with mitt romney? when i look him in 2006, when i look at all the work he did to pass that law in massachusetts, that clearly had to be someone who understood why he was doing that, that there was an actual societal and individual need for that kind of program to fil
for the passage of the affordable care act is people get sicker when they do go to the hospital finally because they are so democrramatically s. it is often invasive, long hospitalization is required and then they are bankrupt as the governor says. it is the wrong way forward. that s why the affordable care act is so critical for full implementation so that people in our nation, especially those who live on the economic margins who don t get health care through their employers they have coverage. it is essential for us as a nation. as a politician analyzing another politician, what do you think is going on here with mitt romney? when i look at him in 2006 and the work he did to pass the law in massachusetts. that clearly had to be someone who understood why he was doing that, there was an societial and individual need for that kind of program to fill in the gaps in
i don t. let me explain why. again, that s for future, not current retirees. if you are 54 or 55, you might want to listen. i can t understand how you can cut medicare $716 billion for current recipients of medicare. you point out, we are putting some back, we are going to give them a better prescription program. it s $1 for every $15 you cut. they are smart enough to know it s not a good trade. when the subject moved to health care, mr. romney was first to point out the reforms he signed into law in massachusetts was something he shied away from in the past. the president could come into office facing 23 million people out of work, an economic crisis at the kitchen table and spent his energy and passion fighting for obama care instead of jobs for the american people. it has killed jobs. the best course for health care
president obam abut as the story goes, the republicans and even perhaps a few democrats ran her out of town. senator brown, if you haven t been paying attention, won his traditionally democratic seat in a special election after the death of senator ted kennedy, a tipoff to the white house that trouble lurk in the land of hope and change. so this is an extremely critical election for both parties as they fight to control the u.s. senate. it is a wonder that senator brown won an election in the people s republic of massachusetts t. might even take a miracle for him to hold his job in a state where democrats outnumber republicans 3 to 1. both candidates have gone down the campaign cherk list on the issues, a little foreign affair, a little economic hand wringing and more recently, professor warren has been accused of representing corporate interests out of her office in cambridge without a license to practice law in massachusetts.