Lost in all of the hubbub over the compromises and outrage over the deals Senator Harry Reid had to cut with the likes of this guy, and this guy and these women is this piece of superb news from Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders (I).
Think about this for a moment: The deals cut with the above-mentioned Senators only cost a few hundred millon dollars (and in the case of Ben Nelson, they will actually go to fund Medicaid — a liberal cause — and in Mary Landrieu’s case, it will go to help people who were devastated by the previous administration’s awful response to Hurricane Katrina).
Sanders apparently went behind the scenes and demanded a concession of $10 billion to fund health care centers around the country — not just in Vermont — that will help people receive health care at the moment they need it instead of letting their illnesses get so far out of hand that they eventually need expensive treatments and/or end up in the emergency rooms.
Sanders, who I became intimately familiar with because of his appearances on the Thom Hartmann Show (Fridays with America’s Senator is a must-listen to anyone who really wants to hear a strong progressive voice), and ever since I’ve seen or heard from him, he is not just defending his own state’s residents, but the entire American public.
Senator Sanders, please keep doing the Lord’s work, and thank you so much for all you do for all of us. You are an amazing man and an American hero.
