Coming on the heels of Obama's muscular speech on the budget yesterday is an announcement today of something else that feels like the Dems finally getting it right.
A new Health Care Advocacy Group has been formed to raise money and then use it to promote understanding and truth-telling about the health care reform act. Gov. Deval Patrick (D-MA) and Gov. Jim Doyle (D-WI) are among the board members, along with health care planners and advisers, labor leaders, communications experts, and political figures.
Gov. Doyle said: “Our efforts here are really to make sure that this is a factual debate and that the facts are out there. It is critical that people understand what the benefits of this act are, and I look forward to making sure those facts are known across the country.”
One person associated with the campaign said that the Massachusetts health care reform plan was "the intellectual foundation of the Obama administration's own law," and the current MA governor Patrick praised former governor Mitt Romney's role in its passage. In fact, if people attack Mitt Romney for his health care plan, they will defend him and it.
So, along with getting out the truth about what the plan does, they're going to apply some political heat as well, it seems. If Romney winds up as the GOP nominee, won't that be a hoot: him trying to run away from his MA plan, and the Dems praising him for it and pointing out that it works and that people like it.
It all sounds encouraging -- just when we needed it.
Ralph
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