Steve Kagen: “I am just as frustrated as you and the American people. Where are you going to run and hide on this vote? There will be…”

“I am just as frustrated as you and the American people. Where are you going to run and hide on this vote? There will be no place to run and no place to hide. You have to show your cards. Whose side are you on? Are you on the side of physicians and nurses who want access to their patients and their patients who want access to their doctors and nurses? Whose side are you on? We do not sit in the boardrooms, we are not the CEOs of insurance companies, but we are representative of peoples' voices. You quoted some Republican Senators. I will go back home again and quote someone who writes to me, Jean, from Appleton: "What is it with this country? Health care for the rich and those in government; the rest can just die or try and live with broken bones and illness." Or Mary Anderson: "Health care issues, affordability is destroying my family and our financial stability." I agree with you, we have to do more. We have done our job. We have created a bill that is fiscally responsible, it is socially progressive, it is the morally acceptable thing to do.”