Reply #5: Bruce Reed, helped Edwards draft plan on Heath Care [View All]

[maddezmom]

<<It is no coincidence that Edwards sought a centrist solution: Bruce Reed, head of the Democratic Leadership Council and former Clinton aide, helped write the plan, while Wendy Button, who recently left the staff of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), wrote his speech. Edwards, who talks to Bill Clinton frequently about his speeches and political strategy, is clearly emulating the former president in both style and substance. The health care proposal fits nicely into that "New Democrat" mold, said Reed. "And if we are going to enact a health care plan, it has to be one we can afford." >>

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A58859-2003Jul28?language=printer


On a side note, I thought I read somewhere Bruce Reed also advised Wes Clark.