Rep. Kagen, it seems, is onto something - NY Daily News
From New York Daily News Blog
Feb 18, 2008
By Michael McAuliff
Hillary Clinton just raised her campaign pledge for universal health care to the level of a new Constitutional right, telling a crowd in De Pere, Wis., today that the way things stand in America it’s OK to discriminate against the sick.
It’s actually an idea being floated by Wisconsin Rep. Steve Kagen, a doctor who introduced Clinton here at St. Norbert’s College (she gave him credit)…
“Under our Constitution, no one is supposed to be discriminated against. That’s part of our values, that’s our law in America. Except sick people can be discriminated against,” she said, recouting Kagen’s argument, which he plans to try and turn into legislation…
Rep. Kagen, it seems, is onto something in his district around Green Bay. For her part, Clinton has talked about health care being a moral right, but we can’t recall her ever elevating it to the Constitutional level before.
