Conservative target Rep. Betsy Markey on health law: 'I'm proud to have voted for it'

Kaiser Health News staff writer Andrew Villegas reports: "Like other swing-district Democrats, Rep. Betsy Markey has a health care target on her back, and is working to defuse criticism before the November elections. After voting against the House version of a health reform bill, Markey later decided to vote for the Senate bill that was amended and is now the law. The switch has Republicans hopeful they'll reclaim the seat they held for years in the largely rural and conservative Colorado Fourth District" (Villegas, 4/16). Read excerpts from the interview.

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