Howard Dean opens Concord author fest with health care talk

[madfloridian]

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Here is more info from the Taunton Gazatte.

Howard Dean kicked off this year’s Concord Festival of Authors


Ann Ringwood/Wicked Local staff photographer
Howard Dean gives the opening talk for the annual Concord Festival of Authors. He spoke at the Emerson Umbrella Oct. 21.

The Emerson Umbrella was packed with people from all over New England who came to see Dean — the former Vermont governor, physician, Democratic National Committee chairman and 2004 Democratic presidential candidate — discuss his book “Howard Dean’s Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform.”

Dean, who believes there can be no health care reform without a public option, faced no opposition Wednesday, with the exception of one protester outside the Umbrella who passed out dissident broadsides and proclaimed, “Howard Dean doesn’t believe in democracy, and neither does the Concord Festival of Authors.”

..."In fact, Dean believes one of the Democrats’ biggest mistakes this fall was not promoting the fact that the United States already has a government-run system serving 50 million (Medicare), socialized medicine serving 25 million (the Veterans Association) and a hybrid system used by members of the U.S. Congress, which combines private insurance with socialized medicine.

“The question that we have to ask the American people is: If people over 65 have it, if the people who served valiantly to defend our country have it, and if the people we pay to make laws in Congress have it, how come we can’t have the same choice they have? And that is a public option,” he said. And that goes back to “the central framing issue,” Dean spoke about Wednesday. He said lawmakers are not working on health care reform, nor are they being asked to do so.

“What we’re asking them to do is let us reform the health care system,” Dean said, “and that is why without a public option, this is not health care reform of any kind. It is not and it ought not to pass.”

[DFW]

1. More common sense backed up by facts

Howard and Alan Grayson ........

"one fist is iron and the other is steel, and if the right one don't get ya, the left one will...."

[madfloridian]

2. Hi DFW

well said, as usual.

[DFW]

6. Hi MF

At the moment I'm in cold and rainy Zürich, when I'd rather be up in cool but sunny Düsseldorf with my Frau,
and I'm condemned to be here and in southern Germany until Sunday night (there is no rest for the weary).
Work is running me ragged, but I'm trying to stay in touch with things on a sporadic basis.

If you know anyone who is fluent in German, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian (or Polish), Dutch and at
least one Scandinavian language, doesn't mind traveling anywhere at a moment's notice, can detect both
counterfeit money and outright BS (detecting it on Fox doesn't count--my goldfish could do that) and is
preferably bullet-proof (not a requirement), I could use an assistant.............

[madfloridian]

7. Ha ha...not fluent in those languages, but I'm very good at detecting BS

"If you know anyone who is fluent in German, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian (or Polish), Dutch and at least one Scandinavian language, doesn't mind traveling anywhere at a moment's notice, can detect both counterfeit money and outright BS"

:evilgrin:

[suzie]

10. Thank you as usual, madflorida.

The President was in Florida today, recognizing a solar energy plant, something the state could be proud of.

But I wouldn't want you to mention that, because Floridians are simply trash and deserving only of the nation's contempt.

So, thank you for telling us one more day about someone from New England, because obviously we don't have anyone in our state that did anything good today.

And we sure wouldn't want you to ever say anything positive about anyone who's actually from Florida.

[KoKo]

3. Kick!

[ProgressOnTheMove]

4. Dang French socialism he said 'voila,' give me my freedom fries. haha. +1

[madfloridian]

5. Yeh, he said it. Congress vs the people that they should be serving...

instead of the health insurance industry.

:hi:

[DFW]

8. Hey, don't leave out The Freedom Toast

www.thefreedomtoast.com

They'd feel lonely if someone mentioned "Freedom Fries" and not them.........

[bobbolink]

9. Fuck Obama for not naming this man Sec. of HHS!

:grr:

[midnight]

11. So glad he is staying vocal about this issue.