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Posted on Thursday, November 22, 2007

Healthy Americans Act up to 11 Senate Sponsors

Senator Wyden recently announced two additional co-sponsors for the Healthy Americans Act - Senators Michael Crapo (R-ID) and Joe Lieberman (I/D-CT) - bringing the total to eleven, including six Republicans.

Ezra Klein notes that the bipartisan support for Senator Wyden’s plan bodes well:

Ron Wyden’s health care bill, which is solid, impressively comprehensive, reform legislation, now has 11 Senate cosponsors, including six Republicans. And these are powerful, conservative, Republicans—Grassley, Judd, Gregg, Alexander, Coleman, Crapo, and Bennett (not to mention Lieberman). ...

This is the sort of congressional coalition building around concrete legislation that didn’t precede the Clinton reforms, and which many feel were the missing ingredient for their success. That it’s happening organically, among the relevant players, without executive leadership, seems quite meaningful.

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