Universal health care is still an LGBT issue

The following has been clipped from The Bilerico Project Report dated 19 September 2009.

I have barely posted anything about health care now that the "debate" (if you will) is in full-swing all over the country. It's partly because I figure that an issue that's being covered everywhere doesn't need any help from me now, but also because all the news has been so damn depressing on this front. The bill keeps on getting compromised, so much so that the bill that just came out of the Senate Finance Committee is just one big love letter to the insurance industry. So I'm just waiting to see what actually passes, if the CPC holds the caucus line, what happens to the bill in conference, and if Obama's technocratic claim to support "what works" actually means anything.

But it's still the big LGBT issue. Tammy Baldwin explains how:

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OF INTEREST . . .

Albeit mortal, Edward "Ted" Kennedy was one of our contemporary heroes.

OF NOTE . . . . . . .

With the progenitor of the Ryan White Act gone now, who will continue to sponsor our care and needs?

OF COURSE . . . .

With the spokesman for health reform now no longer in need of it himself, who will speak up for the poor and the downtrodden? What is to be the qualibre for Tedicare now that he has gone?

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