HCAN Reacts to Massachusetts Special Election Results
Washington, DC – Health Care for America Now (HCAN) – the nation’s largest health care campaign – released the following statement after Republican Scott Brown defeated Democrat Martha Coakley in Tuesday’s special election for the Senate seat in Massachusetts:
Richard Kirsch, National Campaign Manager, Health Care for America Now:
“Health Care for America Now is committed to winning a guarantee of good, affordable health care we all can count on, and we will continue to push aggressively to get the best health care reform bill possible to the President’s desk for his signature as quickly as possible.
Tuesday’s vote was not a referendum on health care reform. It was a referendum on a particular candidate in a climate in which people, hard pressed by the economy, are impatient for change. When it comes to the need to make good health care affordable, nothing is different today than it was yesterday. Congress must keep going and finish reform right.
Fixing health care now is vital to fixing our economy. In survey after survey, voters continue to voice strong support for forcing health insurers to stop excluding people with pre-existing conditions, guaranteeing everyone has access to good, affordable coverage, and requiring health plans to spend premiums on medical care, not profits.
The people of Massachusetts already have benefit from health care reform. It’s time the rest of the country had the same access to good, affordable care.
We are on track to pass a strong bill, and we will stay focused on that until the President signs the bill into law.”
