Bill Clinton Lobbies the Senate for Health Reform
Jay Newton-Small is preparing a fuller account, but you can hear the audio of his Q and A with reporters here:
(Our audio wizard Caitlin Thompson thinks we should award bonus points to the first Swampland commenter who can identify Hillary's ringtone on his cell phone.)
UPDATE: Here's a clip that zeroes in on that mystery ringtone:
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Should Presidents be referring to Americans exercising their First Amendment rights as "teabaggers"?
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Any thoughts, KT?-
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Should Presidents be referring to Americans exercising their First Amendment rights as "teabaggers"?
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Oh, I dunno, spob. Should said Americans be equating an attempt to overhaul the health care system in this country with a 1940s Nazi death camp?
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Maybe "douche-baggers" is a better description of such "freedom of expression" practitioners. Better yet, how about their coming up with some constructive ideas to add to the discussion?
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Beyond, of course, "I've got mine... screw the rest of you."
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Um, "Momma Says Knock You Out"?
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I saw Dr. Paul Farmer speak last night, and he started his talk with this quote from Martin Luther King, Jr.:
"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane."
Farmer then went on to talk about opening a series of hospitals in rural parts of Haiti and now in numerous places in Africa.
He spoke about working closely with the Clinton Foundation to get these clinics and hospitals open and funded and how his organization, Partners in Health, is training locals and staffing these facilities with local doctors, nurses and staff.
I was never much of a Clinton fan, but Farmer gave a great deal of credit to Clinton and his foundation for helping Partners in Health open these facilities and helping to train locals.
There was a certain irony in Framer talking about curing people in third world countries when there are so many people in this country who have no insurance and only get health care as a last resort.
Farmer also noted that in almost every case, diseases and ailments can be treated for as little as 1/16 the cost in thrird world countries than they can in the U.S., and the outcomes are generally the same.
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"You Can't Always Get What You Want"?
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"Devil with a Blue Dress"?
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My song ID genes only work on Eastern Standard Time.
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IvyB - I've been trying to figure out how to work that into a comment gracefully. good on you.
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I've tried to call this to their attention at the Death Star! The High Sheriffs must be passed-out drunk. Again.
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This is really an issue? You guys do realize anyone outsde of the eastern time zone does the math to figure out the proper local time of a post/comment. Just pretend TIME's servers moved to Newfoundland and subtract an hour...
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I think the ringtone is the opening to the song "Knock Me A Kiss".
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Tainted Love
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[...] to reporters in the Capitol was indeed from the Secretary of State. However, he informs us that the intriguing ringtone we heard this afternoon was a generic jazz one, which the former President picked because, well, he [...]
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[...] Catch the snippet of the Q&A with the ringtone here. [...]
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