Tammy Baldwin and health care reform: Now is the time
http://www.isthmus.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26542Joe Tarr
7/21/09
Baldwin, 47, who spoke last weekend at a rally at the state Capitol, has made universal health coverage the cornerstone of her congressional career. But after a decade in office, little has changed. When she went to Washington in 1999 as the first woman to represent Wisconsin in Congress, 38.7 million Americans had no health insurance, according to the Centers for Disease Control. In 2008, the count was 43.8 million — one in seven Americans — and climbing.
It would be unfair, of course, to blame that on Baldwin. But with her party in control, a sympathetic president in office and health care reform on the table, now is the best shot Baldwin will get. What is she doing to deliver on all those old campaign promises?
