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    “Today we are one step closer to enacting health insurance reform that controls costs, provides choice and competition, and emphasizes wellness, prevention and shared responsibility.” "If health care reform were easy we would have accomplished a more sensible system when President Truman was in the White House" said Carnahan. “For our country to dig ourselves out of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression bold and decisive action is needed” (His announced Republican rival, St. Louis lawyer Ed Martin, soon after issued a statement blasting Carnahan's action.) The region's other Democrat, U.S. Rep. William Lacy Clay, also voted for the bill, as did U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Kansas City. Full Article at St. Louis Beacon
    If health care reform were easy we would have accomplished a more sensible system when President Truman was in the White House
    – Russ Carnahan SOURCE: St. Louis Beacon 3 weeks ago
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Missouri, Illinois mostly see party-line vote over health care bill passing U.S. House
  1. Instead, we should be focused on fixing what is broken in health care by keeping costs low through medical liability reform and improving access – even for those with pre-existing conditions – through small business health plans and risk pools.
    SOURCE: St. Louis Beacon 3 weeks ago
  2. After years of effort, months of debate and listening to the ideas and concerns of people throughout Missouri, momentum is on the side of the American people and health insurance reform ... Today we are one step closer to enacting health insurance reform that controls costs, provides choice and competit...
    – Russ Carnahan SOURCE: St. Louis Beacon 3 weeks ago
  3. The goal of this legislation has been clear from the beginning. To pass a public option that will serve as a gateway to single payer, government-controlled health care...
    SOURCE: St. Louis Beacon 3 weeks ago
  4. By forcing this mammoth overhaul on hard-working Americans, Nancy Pelosi and the liberal majority are creating a health care system that increases taxes on small businesses, reduces benefits and choices for seniors, and piles insurmountable debt upon our children.
    SOURCE: St. Louis Beacon 3 weeks ago
  5. For our country to dig ourselves out of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression bold and decisive action is needed
    SOURCE: St. Louis Beacon 3 weeks ago
  6. levying of billions of dollars of taxes on our small businesses, as well as the consequent losses of millions of more jobs brings the proposal for socializing healthcare from the realm of the irrational to the dangerously delusional.
    SOURCE: St. Louis Beacon 3 weeks ago

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