Senator Joe Lieberman has a long track record of fighting for* reform of the US healthcare systems. His recent focus has been on Community Health Centers. He believes that community health centers play a critical role in our public health infrastructure.

Senator Lieberman thanked local community leaders and Common Council President Michael Coffey-D and Council member Herbert Grant-D for accompanying on his tour of the Norwalk Community Health Center. “The consistently number one concern of the people of Connecticut,” he said, “is about healthcare and health insurance. Its from the hundreds of thousands in our state who don’t have it, but the million plus who do [have health insurance] are paying too much and more and more as employees or employers.”

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The political process is a strange one. You have people who theoretically should be really interested in how government should work better basically fixated on the trees and ignoring that big old forest aflame. In Norwalk’s case, it’s not flames that are flickering, but floods that are the latest sign that there’s an aging, creaking infrastructure that exists out of sight just crying for some attention. Tuesday night’s DTC meeting started with a presentation by Susan Bysiewicz of the new voting machines that will be in place this fall. More on that in another post, sticking around for the rest of the show revealed another infrastructure creaking under the weight of indifference. So. what can I say about a Democratic party that takes up 30 minutes debating the merits of spending $30 on an ad for a local charity, and less than 5 minutes on the merits of focusing on city infrastructure issues? Nothing. I’m just too disgusted with the process to even begin a good rant about it.

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