| Lessons from the Health-Care Wars
Dreier, Peter
The American Prospect, May 2010, v21, #4, pp29-34
"The health-care battle taught progressives how to play the inside-outside
game more effectively. They will need to draw on those lessons for upcoming
battles. "For every issue that Congress will be facing the rest of this year and beyond," Kirsch [the director of Health Care for America Now (HCAN), a broad coalition of more than a thousand labor, consumer, civil-rights, anti-poverty, community, netroots, and religious groups] says, "we need to force them to answer the same question: Which side are you on? The public good or corporate America?"
Peter Dreier is E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics and director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Program at Occidental College.
Go to the article at:
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=lessons_from_the_health_care_wars
C24/02-10. Posted April 27, 2010
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