Michael Bennet Quotes
Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we must not shrink from the challenge.
Bennet, Michael. "Bennet Backs Health Care Reform Legislation." U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, 24 Dec. 2009.
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Eisenhower later fired Hobby because when Salk invented the polio vaccine and Hobby did not get it distributed to all Americans regardless of their ability to pay. For a while, poor children kept getting polio after it was unnecessary. Arthur Flemming took over HEW and did the job as Eisenhower wanted. Eisenhower was a health advocate uncharacteristic of the conservative wing of his party at the time.
This was a time when there were moderates and liberals in the Republican party which then was still following the Lincoln tradition.
Although extremely conservative, Paul was opposed to giving corporations a cut of economic activity just to say that it was private and not public of government run. The corporate HMOs and managed care organizations claimed that they are performing a quality control and money saving service, but there were non profit organizations that performed the functions just as well and did not add on a profit fee for themselves,
That particular Libertarian platform called for the abolition / repeal of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the Post Office, Federal election Commission and campaign finance laws. Extreme radical ideas such as this are not typical of Libertarian Party positions before or afterwards. The quotation illustrates that there are people in America who would end public education if they could. The quotation also illustrates how a small cadre of people can capture control of a political party and create a platform that is their own personal views which may be different from most of the party members or the historical position that the party has taken. In 1980 the Libertarian Party Vice Presidential Candidate was David Koch, one half of the billionaire conservative Koch brothers. Their money financed the Libertarian Party in that year and David Koch’s views then prevailed in the party platform. Historically, the Koch brothers moved from a minor third party to the Republican party at the beginning of the 21st century when their money was able to help drive the party very far to the right from the traditions of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt.
Michael Farrand Bennet is an American businessman, lawyer, and politician who has served as the senior United States Senator from Colorado since 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, he was appointed to the seat when Senator Ken Salazar became Secretary of the Interior. Bennet previously worked as a managing director for the Anschutz Investment Company, chief of staff to Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, and Superintendent of Denver Public Schools.
