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Rep. Jim McDermott: Democrats can run on Obamacare this year
The Washington Times ^ | January 2, 2014 | David Sherfinski

Posted on 01/02/2014 10:12:43 AM PST by jazusamo

Rep. Jim McDermott said Thursday that Democrats should adopt a “two-pronged approach” to their agenda and for the midterm elections this year — with one of the prongs involving Obamacare.

“I think there clearly is an exciting thing happening today,” Mr. McDermott, Washington Democrat, said on MSNBC. “For the first time many people have health care and that’s going to be an issue that Democrats I think can run on and be very proud of, and the other side’s going to have a hard time explaining why it isn’t good for people to have health insurance and be protected against previous problems they’ve had and getting their children covered. That’s going to be hard.”

The White House this week touted figures that showed more than 2 million people have selected health care plans through state and federal insurance exchanges, and almost 4 million learned in the first two months of the health care law’s rollout that they’re eligible for Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program.

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KEYWORDS: democrats; mcdermott; obamacare; socialism
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To: Moonman62

But everyone else does.


41 posted on 01/02/2014 2:04:37 PM PST by funfan
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To: jazusamo

Yo, “Baghdad Jim” McDirtbag, please do run on ObamaCare.


42 posted on 01/03/2014 4:13:03 AM PST by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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