Caribbean
Health News as of
|
USVI delegate applauds Obama's health care reform speech
|
| Published on Friday, September 11, 2009 | Email To Friend Print Version
|
WASHINGTON, USA -- US Virgin Islands Delegate to Congress Donna Christensen applauded President Barack Obama’s speech on health care reform on Wednesday night, calling it a great speech that was clear, defining, and inspiring. “As far as I can see he stuck to what he laid out from the very beginning,” Christensen said after attending the Joint Session of Congress called by the President to outline his health care plan.
 |
| USVI Delegate to Congress Donna Christensen |
“I know that at the end of this process we will not get everything each of us wants or what might even have been the best approach, but I expect that we will fight for the best approach to the end,” she said. “He included a public option and I am very glad that he held to his position and made that clear.”
Christensen said she was disappointed that the president made no mention of health disparities, but she believes that he will address them.
“The Congressional Black Caucus has been pressing that the shameful gaps in care and health for people of color, the poor, rural communities and the territories be addressed,” she pointed out. “Insurance alone will not close the gaps and we will continue to work with him on these provisions. He said that this is a moral issue and an issue of social justice so we know he will do the right thing.”
Christensen acknowledged that the Congress still has a lot of work to do.
“The President definitely called on all of us to reach for our better selves. We will have a bill signed into law before the end of the year - we just want real reform and real change in the life of the people that we represent,” she said. | | | | Reads : 728 | | | |
|
|
Click here for Health News archives prior to February 16, 2007...
|
