Blue Dog Jim Cooper Heckled on Health Care

Pro-health care protest outside of Representative Jim Cooper's office in Nashville, Tennessee. Saturday, August 22, 2009. Hundreds of Nashvillians and Tennesseans from the 5th district protested in favor of health care reform. Cooper blocked meaningful health care reform in 1994, and is blocking meaningful reform in 2009, even though his district voted for Obama +13% and is a 'deep blue' district (it also voted for Kerry in 2004). Cooper claims to be interested in slowing the process down and having long discussions. But by now he has had time to read the bill, yet he still delays and blocks reform. Jim Cooper is a Blue Dog Democrat even though he represents a Yellow Dog Democrat district. Cooper is not holding town meetings during this August recess so he can avoid people like these protesters, yet he is on Chris Matthews and Face the Nation during the same time period.

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[savannahsmiles92]

love how they say hundreds showed up to protest for health care reform.

what about the the hundreds that showed up to fight health care reform?

Just a bit biased here..

[cegrover]

It's funny to me that people assume those opposed are Republicans. I'm not, but I don't want government health care.

What we need is tort reform to bring down defensive medicine and malpractice insurance costs. I'd like to move away from employer-based health care and into just paying for basic health services (routine checkups, etc) like any other service, then carrying catastrophic coverage for major problems.

[dustee]

Why is it none of the Republicans have any Ideas - -- -none! Bluedogs just as bad.

They are all bought and paid for by the insurance industry. They found the money to start two (2) wars and kill the economy.

[cegrover]

Have any of those people proposed a way to pay for government health care?