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Schwarzenegger Pumps Up Health Care Reform

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Posted on Oct 6, 2009
White House / Pete Souza

The California governor and rare Hollywood Republican released a statement Tuesday in support of health care reform, in which he praised the president and urged his “colleagues on both sides of the political aisle at the national level to move forward and accomplish these vital goals for the American people.”

It’s a testament to the bitter partisanship of the health care debate that a moderate Republican who has championed reform in the past would make headlines by breaking with his party’s no, no, no strategy.

Arnold Schwarzenegger had tried and failed to bring universal health care to his state, so his opinion that reform is needed is not all that shocking.

Bush HHS chief Tommy Thompson, former Senate GOP honcho Bill Frist and quasi-Republican and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg have all expressed various degrees of support for some form of reform.

If that’s the best we can do for bipartisanship, the Democrats may just have to do something with their majority. Although some Democrats are just as determined as the GOP to stymie reform.  —PS

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By Litl Bludot, October 6, 2009 at 10:33 pm Link to this comment

The article is Arnold propaganda.  He vetoed single payer here in the “golden” state. He also destroyed worker’s comp. as soon as he took office.  He is funded by the ins. corps, pharma, banks, energy corps (Enron got him started), etc. just like Obama. They belong together.

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By MarthaA, October 6, 2009 at 6:39 pm Link to this comment

“Although some Democrats are just as determined as the GOP to stymie reform.”

These are the autocratic Democrats that must be voted out in 2010 or at the 1st available chance and replaced with real democratic Democrats.

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By Commune115, October 6, 2009 at 11:46 am Link to this comment

I agree with healthcare reform and wish the President success, but our governor is a complete idiot. Nobody in this state takes him seriously at all, our state has become a corrupt casino equal to Batista’s Cuba or Somoza’s Nicaragua, that is not an exaggeration. Areas of The Valley don’t get clean water, the police randomly stop people and take their cars away and force them to pay to have the vehicle released, one hour parking costs $30, even the DMV has new, strange schemes to milk an easy $160 from you from a sticker renewal. And that’s just in the car area, the courts, schools are just a wasteland. Arnold is a joke, him and LA mayor Villaraigosa are the equivalent of those wealthy, corrupt politicians you see in documentary films packing their suitcases when the peasants rebel.

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