Richard Kirsch, National Campaign Manager at Health Care for Americans Now (HCAN), brags in The Nation how he used $61 million from left-wing donors to pay the Professional Left at ACORN and other groups including unions and the continuing Obama campaign, to demonize insurance companies, and to promote the public option as a unifying theme even after it was pulled from the bill.
It is reassuring to know that a Tea Party movement that generated spontaneously with no 865-page central planning document, and nowhere near the budget of HCAN managed to win the popular fight. In the end, Kirsch’s efforts failed and the Left had to rely on late-night votes on Saturdays, a vote on Christmas Eve, and other tricks to pass a bill that just about everyone admits will raise costs and expand the deficit.
Everyone, that is except Sen. Kay Hagan. The junior senator said, “We need health care reform in this country because of the high cost of the delivery of care.” She still claimed that the bill will improve coverage and access, despite the mounting evidence against this claim.
