Senate candidates go round on crime, health care
2006-09-20
Source: Minnesota Star-Tribune
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rss feedU.S. Senate candidates Mark Kennedy and Amy Klobuchar went at it again Tuesday night, picking up where they left off at a raucous State Fair debate earlier in the month.
In the quieter setting at Twin Cities Public Television studios in downtown St. Paul, Kennedy, the Republican congressman from Watertown, and Klobuchar, the DFL Hennepin County attorney, tangled over crime, Social Security, prescription drugs, health care and the deficit.
Minutes after the debate opened, Kennedy accused Klobuchar of proposing government-rationed health care because she favors government negotiation of prescription drug prices. Agencies such as the Veterans Administration may offer lower prices through such negotiation, Kennedy said, but "one in five drugs" isn't covered.
"You are doing this fear-mongering," Klobuchar said.
"I'm talking about negotiating, not rationing," she said.
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