Wednesday, September 9, 2009

'Go slow' reform hurts Ky. citizens

There's a very good editorial in today's Herald-Leader:

On their "delay and dawdle" tour last week, Sens. Mitch McConnell and John McCain downplayed the seriousness of having 47 million people in this country with no health insurance. Many of them could afford coverage but choose to go without, they said.

While that may be true in some places, it's far from true in Kentucky, the state that McConnell is supposed to represent.

...McConnell and the other Kentuckians in Congress should take a look at the statistics before suggesting that anyone's moving too fast to fix these problems.

When it comes to a state as unhealthy as Kentucky, Congress can't move fast enough.