HuffPost's Sam Stein Joins "Ed Show" Panel To Discuss Mark Sanford, Health Care Reform Prospects (VIDEO)

HuffPost reporter Sam Stein joined an "Ed Show" panel, along with Laura Flanders, host of Grittv.org, and John Feehery, GOP strategist, to discuss the political fallout from South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford's affair, and if he should step down, and the prospects for health care reform now that the Democrats have reached 60 votes in the Senate (including two Independents who regularly vote with the Democrats).

Part 1 (panel starts at 6:35)

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Part 2

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Comments

[lovethesinner]

Ed has the most important question exactly right. The people already OVERWHELMINGLY support the public option. And that woman is right too, "what does the quality of care matter if you CAN'T GET HEALTH-CARE in the first place.

Obama is using the personal stories to raise grass root support so THEY will LOBBY for the public option to their congressmen and senators. He can TWIST ARMS, but it's the responsibility of the PEOPLE to LOBBY in their own interest, ahead of the corporate interests who FUND THOSE CONGRESSIONAL campaigns.

This is the one place in American life where people can trump money. Ultimately, you win elections by getting the most VOTES, not the most campaign donations.

Good job, ED.

[noleap2gr8]

Sam is easy on the eyes and very smart.

[Disuberence]

I agree!

[skorp36]

I agree as well!

[Totto]

Like a cheap "romance novel" picked up at the airport, sins of the flesh, self-obsession.
Total disregard for the effect on anyone else in his life, his wife, his sons. Pathetic.

[real1234]

Ed is always up-to-date on the issues. I felt sorry for Gov Sanford because you can hear the anguish in his voice. Finding one's true soul-mate comes but once in a lifetime and some never find it. Has he been hypocritical? Yes. I do feel more for his wife and especially his kids who didn't ask for any of this. " Oh what a tangled web we weave" I can sort of relate to finding ones soul-mate and letting them go, the anguish never leaves you and forever wonder about what could have been.

[lovethesinner]

I just wanted to say I'm a huge fan of Sam Stein. Love his writing, and his unique viewpoint in story selection. Great to see him on MSNBC.

Replacement for David Gregory at MTP?

[PresidentRobertBooth]

On one hand they say healthcare shouldn't be put into the hands of government because the government are useless and inept and blah blah blah.

But then they claim the government health system would be TOO successful, and the private sector wouldn't be able to compete.

So which one is it.

Also, technically a public system wouldn't be run by "the government" but by mainly civil servants and hired staff. It's not like Obama would actually be in hospitals saying "Yeah, sure we can remove Glen Beck's piles"

[Exexecution]

How about remove Glenn Beck?

[careforall]

A cap on lawyers' income will be end the of justice in america.

Who is going to save a child who just go run over by a car? Who is going to take care our parents when they get old....? Who is going to take care our appendicitis in the middle of the night?
Doctors, Nurses..... No!
Only a lawyer can give our children and parents what they need, therefore we should make sure the lawyers are well compensated to insure the quality of our healthcare.
http://www.justice.org/cps/rde/xchg/justice/hs.xsl/default.htm

[skyslimit]

Outcompete with private plans? But I thought that we don't want to be "forced" into a government system? If the government system outcompetes the private insurers, that means its B-E-T-T-E-R. I guess the hamburger man is saying that people don't want better insurance, they want worse?? You could drive a ground meat delivery truck through the holes in that argument.