Diana DeGette Quotes
A public option is essential to creating the cost-savings necessary to offset the cost of providing all Americans access to affordable health care.
DeGette, Diana. "DeGette Applauds Committee Passage of Health Care Reform." Congresswoman Diana DeGette, U.S. House of Representatives, 17 July 2009.
This quotation is interesting for two reasons: First, President Donald Trump had campagned on teh promise of Universal Health Insurance and in the early days of the Tramp Administration, Trump's Manager of the Office of Management and Budget effectivly repudiated Trum's campaign promise. Second, it ilustrates the narrownss to the thinking of soem of the very conservative politicians of the era. Virtually every industiral democracy in the world had universial health or health insurance coverage. Mulvaney's thinking was limited to teh classic U. S. model of health insurance premiums being paid by individuals and companies to privat insurance companies. Yet most other countries had teh government coelect the money and pay the health providers (the single payer system) of simply funded universal ehalth care through the general tax revenues, and had no specific act of buying a policy so there was no way for people to refuse.
The administration did not manage the process very well and the organized opposition interests were brilliantly managed leading to defeat for the program and the health situation continued to further deteriorate.
This was yet another call for national health insurance that begun by President Harry S Truman. Many Democratic efforts were unsuccessful until President Barack Obama finally passed a basic health care reform system fully 40 years after McGovern’s call.
Diana Louise DeGette is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Colorado's 1st congressional district since 1997. A member of the Democratic Party, her district is based in Denver. DeGette was a Chief Deputy Whip from 2005 to 2019 and is the dean of Colorado's congressional delegation; she served as the Colorado State Representative for the 6th district from 1993 until her election to the U.S. House.
