Summit Watch- Harkin: Whenever I hear the word "pool", I think "segregation."

By GottaLaff

Tom Harkin:

Nine out of ten of Republican ideas are in the Senate bill that are in the House bill... We're very close on this.

As for an incremental approach:

You can only do reforms if everyone's in the pool. ... cost controls... this all hangs together. You can't pick one out and do it without doing the other.... It's like throwing a 10 foot rope to someone who's drowning... then a 20 foot rope... He'll drown. [paraphrased]

And a vital point:

We don't want to allow segregation in our country... nor on the basis of disability... yet we still allow it on the basis of your health. Why should we? Why should we?... Whenever I hear the word "pool", I think "segregation."