rssStupak Cites Passage of Health Reform as Reason for Retiring
Friday, April 09, 2010 at 3:42 pm
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Outgoing Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) met with reporters today just a few hours after the news leaked that the 18-year House veteran had decided to hang up his hat at the end of this year. After suffering a barrage of criticisms over his stand on abortion during the health care debate — first from liberals and then from conservatives — speculation was that he was retiring from the exhaustion. Yet Stupak denied that Friday, saying that, after passage of the health reform bill, he felt that his work in Congress was done.
“My friends and family know that during the last several election cycles, when it seemed like health care reform was impossible in Washington, I considered retiring from Congress,” he said. “But in each of the past several election cycles, I chose to continue to serve the people of the first district because I felt we still had work to do.”
Today, children can no longer be denied care because of a pre- existing condition and no insurance company can drop you for your family from care or cap your insurance coverage due to a serious injury or chronic illness. Today, because of reforms, seniors will be able to afford their prescription drugs and Americans will receive preventive care that they need. And today, small businesses can receive tax credits to make employee insurance coverage more affordable.
After 18 years, together, we’ve accomplished what you sent me to Washington to do, health care for all Americans.
Stupak said he’s ready to take on “new challenges,” though he didn’t say what they might be.
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Comment posted April 9, 2010 @ 9:07 pm
If Stupak does in fact believe that he was helping to achieve health reform, his approach was certainly ineffective as his objections to the bill helped to cause the backroom politics that reduced public support for the bill. However, his retirement is more likely the view of someone who sees no real future in politics as a result of burning both ends of the bridge.
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Comment posted April 10, 2010 @ 8:59 pm
Stupak sold out PERIOD. He knows he can't win after what he did. He also knows that Obamacare was NOT health care reform but redistribution of wealth. It is rotten legislation and Stupak betrayed his constituents who put their trust in him to represent them. The guy's nothing but a political douche bag and everyone knows it!
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Comment posted April 12, 2010 @ 3:10 am
this idiot Rep. Bart Stupid was a bought vote and will retire from politics and end up with a high paying medical job some where. he will not be the only one to get a job in the health care world. as our politicians retire many will get a job for the vote they cast. so much of a hurry to push a bill threw that won't take effect until 2014 somethings fishy, Imagine that. don't get me wrong I'm all for a health care bill but it must be free for the poor and working poor then start to charge people that can afford it. this president should have taken care of the economy and jobs before he took on health care only exception would be a national emergency other than that it should have been the economy and jobs.this president is a smart man but is doing every thing ass backwards and I don't think he has a clue what the average AMERICAN is going threw. he's just another puppet on a string being run by big business and the big corporations same game different blame.
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