Tim Kaine on Health Reform: Make My Day, Republicans!
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
I hope they do, Rachel. I want them to campaign in favor of insurance company abuses that kick people off policies when they get sick. I want them to campaign and say they want to now reimpose more prescription drug costs on seniors. I want them to campaign and say it's wrong that parents are now able to keep their kids on their policies until they're 27, they need to kick them all off the policies now. They are fighting very hard against this because they're petrified it's going to pass. They know it's going to do good things for Americans. They know that their record of obstruction, trying to block health reform, is going to go very hard for them come November.
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