Judy Feder for Healthcare Reform

Judy Feder is one of the nation's best known health care policy experts. Give the criticality of healthcare reform for the next President and Congress, her expertise is among the main reasons she will be an excellent Representative for the 10th District in Congress.

DownWithTyranny is featuring a post by Judy on healthcare reform. Here's what they have to say about our candidate.

Professor Feder-- who was also the Dean of Georgetown University's much heralded Public Policy Institute-- is a recognized expert on an issue topmost on many people's minds this year: health care. In Congress she will start out not as just another freshman, but as one of the policy experts on an issue that has to be dealt with seriously. Her work at the Brookings Institution, Urban Institute and as staff director for the bipartisan Congressional Pepper Commission for comprehensive health care, plus stint at the Department of Health and Human Services, where she worked to expand health insurance coverage and manage Medicare and Medicaid effectively, make her uniquely qualified to play a major role in developing solutions to the very real problems facing out country's medical system after 8 years of Bush Regime malfeasance. - DownWithTyranny

It is worth clicking through and reading Judy's post, but here is an excerpt to whet your appetite.

The fact is that both Clinton and Obama (whatever their differences) propose health reform that will get us to universal coverage-- real concrete steps that will guarantee coverage that really works. McCain's so-called reform is a sham.

Both Democrats realize, and their plans bear this out, that you need three things to get the Triple-A coverage Americans deserve: health reform requires insurance that gives us Access to the full range of services we need when we're sick, that is Affordable, and that's Available to all of us, regardless of our pre-existing conditions.
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Enacting Triple-A health reform will be a daunting task. As they've done in the past, stakeholders in the status quo will try to scare us into believing that reform will make us worse off, not better off. Just remember Harry and Louise-- fictional characters in the health insurance industry's 1994 ad campaign-- who misleadingly but relentlessly picked apart the health reform proposal, asserting over and over again "there's got to be a better way."

Today's Democrats have that way. And we don't need fictional characters today to tell us our system is broken. Our moms and dads, brothers and sisters, friends and co-workers fill that role every day. The time for debate and discussion has passed. The time for action is now. - Judy Feder at DownWithTyranny