Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) released a statement after President Obama’s health care speech saying that “anyone who doesn’t understand the urgency of this crisis fails to recognize the needs of the American people.”
The President understands that health care reform isn’t about him, or about any of us in Congress who already have great health care. It’s about the millions of Americans who can’t afford insurance and the millions more whose insurance doesn’t guarantee them the care they need.
Dodd continued: “We have come too far to turn back now. And I believe that this Congress will leave behind the cheap politics of a hot summer and get back to doing the job we were sent here to do.”
And for those “who look to sow fear by spreading lies” or are concerned with “political scoreboard-watching?” They are “irrelevant,” Dodd said.
“The President made it clear tonight that the time to act is now — and I, for one, am ready to join him in this fight.”
