On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.
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The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.
The one big strategic error - which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions - was the prescription drug bill.
We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves.
We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.
We need to take politics out of health care. Congress will cave to pretty much any special interest on the subject.
Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system.
The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or '79.
Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
True health care reform cannot happen in Washington. It has to happen in our kitchens, in our homes, in our communities. All health care is personal.
I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.
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