“You think Obama overinterpreted his mandate with health
care?
The problem with
health care is this: Health care is enormously important to people. When you
tell them that you’re going to extend health care to people who don’t now have
it, they don’t see how you can do that without hurting them. So I think he
underestimated, as did Clinton, the sensitivity of people to what they see as
an effort to make them share the health care with poor people. I think we paid
a terrible price for health care. I would not have pushed it as hard. As a
matter of fact, after Scott Brown won, I suggested going back. I would have
started with financial reform but certainly not health care.”
- In
Conversation: Barney Frank, by Jason Zengerle, nymag.com, 04/15/2012 http://nymag.com/news/features/barney-frank-2012-4/
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