Progressives and the Fight for Healthcare

Progressives and the Fight for Healthcare

Progressives and the Fight for Healthcare

Marcy Wheeler talks strategy, saying that Democrats need to “push the positive” to encourage people to not accept anything but the public option.

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Marci Wheeler, a blogger and investigative journalist who writes for FireDogLake, talks to The
Nation
about the progressive’s fight for real healthcare reform.
Wheeler talks strategy, saying that Democrats need to “push the
positive” to encourage people to not accept anything but the public
option. Additionally, she criticizes the Baucus Bill, what she calls the
“Max tax,” which would push the middle class into bankruptcy.

Alana Levinson

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