The Blue Dog co-chair Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin (D-SD) is out with a mostly non-committal response to the President’s speech. I’ve placed it below the fold, but in the most significant part of it, Sandlin says, “Blue Dogs agree with President Obama that the insurance market should be reformed. We must end the practice of denying coverage to individuals with pre-existing conditions, and we must eliminate the waste, fraud and abuse that is currently bankrupting the system.”
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=138424