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He goes on to make some reasoned criticisms of the present bill and even some advice for the administration:
"The first few years are likely to be rough, he predicts. States will be struggling to set up new marketplaces for insurance coverage, their medicaid rolls will grow, taxes will go up, and consumers will not yet see the benefits. "The Republicans will go wild," using the start-up difficulties as a tool for fundraising and for making their case in the next election,"
Wow, its amazing the voice of sanity in the Republican Party is Bill Frist. The man, afterall, is a doctor who puts politics in front of medicine, and will say the most ridiculous things to appeal to the rightwing base (Terri Schiavo?)
I'm finding it hard to believe how anyone can support a party that is in lockstep in denying affordable healthcare to America, then I remember these people vote with an immutable belief that the Dumbing Down of America is a good thing.
If Bill Frist had any testicular fortitude he would have spoken out, but he has none
Someone must be paying Frist a chunk of money. Why would anyone in their right mind support this?
CNSNews.com - Finance Committee Democrat Won’t Read Text of Health Bill, Says Anyone Who Claims They’ll Understand It ‘Is Trying to Pull the Wool Over Our Eyes’ (http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/54930 - broken link)
Finance Committee Democrat Won’t Read Text of Health Bill, Says Anyone Who Claims They’ll Understand It ‘Is Trying to Pull the Wool Over Our Eyes’
(CNSNews.com) - Sen. Thomas Carper (D.-Del.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, told CNSNews.com that he does not “expect” to read the actual legislative language of the committee’s health care bill because it is “confusing” and that anyone who claims they are going to read it and understand it is fooling people.
“I don’t expect to actually read the legislative language because reading the legislative language is among the more confusing things I’ve ever read in my life,” Carper told CNSNews.com.
Carper described the type of language the actual text of the bill would finally be drafted in as "arcane," "confusing," "hard stuff to understand," and "incomprehensible." He likened it to the "gibberish" used in credit card disclosure forms.
I believe that more Republicans would support a Public Option if they weren't part of the "let's get Obama" gang. We've seen what happens when one of them strays outside the pack.
However, knowing that Frist said "I'd vote for it" worries me, even if he is no longer in the Senate.
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