Robert Reich’s Blog
Health Care Reform is Critically Important, But Getting Americans Back to Work is More So
Sunday, November 1, 2009
“…I sincerely hope America gets genuine health reform and I hope it’s stronger than what’s emerging in the Senate. (Whoever voted for Joe Lieberman last time around ought to pray for continued good health.) I worry, though, that Obama’s strategy may turn out to be a mistake comparable to Clinton’s overemphasis on deficit reduction. Obama’s focus on health care rather than jobs, when the economy is still so fragile and unemployment moving toward double digits, could make it appear that the administration has its priorities confused. While affordable health care is critically important to Americans, making a living is more urgent. Yet the administration’s efforts to date on this more basic concern have been neither particularly visible nor coherent…”
The entire blog entry is here.
Robert Reich was the nation’s 22nd Secretary of Labor and is a professor at the University of California at Berkeley.
