Comments on: Whither Health Care Reform? Brown Wins In Mass.

By: pharmavet

pharmavet — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:04:55 +0000

Massachussets has the benefit of experience. Their universal mandatory healthcare plan that was supposed to lower health care costs produced the opposite result. Voters saw Obamacare as basically a larger version of the same thing. Their direct experience taught them that nationalized healthcare would explode the deficit rather than lower it.

By: harry

harry — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:04:24 +0000

Now healthcare reform is up in the air! So what now? Pharma stocks were up on the news of Brown, why?
thought pharma were in agreement with the new healthcare bill. You would think that Mass would reject healthcare because of the public option not in the senate bill, not healthcare reform in itself. although a blue state??, is the land of harvard and other like institutions, mass general (biederman), biotechs, in other words the hub of corruption in the medical world. don’t get the politics. I read here that Boston scientific (ugh) were courting coakley via kerry, so Brown could be a good pick. but then who in congress isn’t bought off by pharma, wall street? Brown? I don’t think so.
very difficult for voters on main street.

By: Palinthebutt

Palinthebutt — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:47:03 +0000

You betcha.

I can see healthcare reform from my back porch. Either that, or it’s a dead whale.

Send it back to Russia where it came from.

By: Lisa Van Syckel

Lisa Van Syckel — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:51:34 +0000

Anne PME,… Im a C-Span junkie, this makes my day.

By: Anne PME

Anne PME — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:49:18 +0000

So, between Al Franken and Scott Brown, HCR and other pressing issues may beome more interesting and fun to watch on C Span than soap operas or game shows.

By: harpy

harpy — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:01:38 +0000

The subtext to this outcome, to paraphrase NPR this morning - Massachusetts already has healthcare. It’s easy for them to say “I got mine so f*ck you, Jack.” One state does not “the public” make.

By: JaT

JaT — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:57:22 +0000

Before I get scolded, let me just say, that I am aware that both parties are lobbied. I meant as it pertains to the support Coakley reached for, as opposed to Brown’s reach for the people.

By: JaT

JaT — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:45:48 +0000

All I can think is this proves that lobbyists and special interests do not have so much influence that they cannot be quelled. Like Brown or not- take comfort in that.

By: Justice in MI

Justice in MI — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:18:50 +0000

There is much that could be said, but the core is that Dick Armey won. The rest is commentary.

By: Michael Kirsch, M.D.

Michael Kirsch, M.D. — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:06:18 +0000

This gives hope to those of us who have been suspicious and skeptical of pending health care legislation. It’s amazing that this senate seat was even in play, a seat that Ted Kennedy held for 46 years. If a Democrat lost this seat, than scores of Democrats across the country in more conservative districts are all reaching for Valium tonight. Will the Dems try to ram HCR down the country’s throats before Scott Brown takes office? I don’t think so. If they did, they would be punished this November. The subtext to Brown’s victory is that the public has not bought in to the president’s and the Democrats’ health care reform plan. Many of us felt that their ‘cure’ of the health care system was worse than the disease. http://www.MDWhistleblower.blogspot.com