Michael Bennet’s lame support for “public option” via reconciliation

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

The Denver Post reports: U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet is pressing colleagues to use a procedural tool known as reconciliation to pass health-reform legislation — and to include the controversial public-insurance option in the bill. ... "Much of the public identifies a public option as the key component of health care ...

Michael Bennet: “free preventive care for everyone”! Not.

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Writes Vince Carroll in the Denver Post: If the Senate health care bill becomes law, your preventive care will become "free." ... We have the word of Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet that the bill guarantees "free preventive care for everyone." ... What the senator actually meant, of course — and would eventually ...

Denver Post: “Udall, Bennet should say ‘no’” to health bill

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

From the Denver Post's Editorial Board on HR 3590: Udall, Bennet should say "no" Colorado's senators should take a principled stand and vote against the travesty that the Senate health care bill has become. In passing a test vote on health- care legislation in the early morning hours Monday, the Senate failed miserably ...

Michael Bennet should oppose Democrat health “reform”

Friday, August 14th, 2009

Senator Michael Bennet says that "health care reform must shift control from insurance companies to doctors, nurses and their patients." If so, he should oppose the Democrats' so-called health care "reform." Insurance companies have too much control because politicians have handed it to them through tax laws that give preferential ...

Michael Bennet’s health care confusion

Friday, July 17th, 2009

From 9 News: [Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colorado)] says people can't handle the double-digit health care cost increases they are seeing each year and that the people who have insurance can't keep covering the costs of those who don't and who are then treated in the emergency room which he called "the ...