Tag: Howard Dean

Dean: ‘If the Republicans hate it, there must be some good in it’

As health care reform legislation grinds its way through Congress, the list of those opposing it has ballooned, and a week ago former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean was among them.
Now, however, Dean says he has defected from the “Kill the Bill” caucus, laughingly telling MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Tuesday that “to see [...]

Olbermann: ‘Not health, not care, not reform’

Clearly as disappointed in the resulting Senate healthcare bill as many progressives are today, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann gave a preview of his ‘Special Comment’ that aired on Countdown Wednesday evening in a diary at Daily Kos, ” There could not be a finer line between the words compromise and compromised and tonight, with the greatest [...]

Dean: Even the weakened House health care bill ‘is real reform’

Lawrence O’Donnell, substituting for Keith Olbermann on MSNBC’s Countdown, spoke on Thursday with former Governor Howard Dean about the relatively weakened version of health care reform that is now moving through the House of Representatives.
Dean’s reaction to the House bill was, “It’s not the best we can do, but it’s a very good start.”
Leaders of [...]