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Window Closing Fast on Senate Democrats
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced late last night that Democrats have reached a “broad agreement” on their health care “reform” bill.Â
With a self-imposed deadline approaching, Senate Democrats are on the edge of their seats waiting to hear back from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) about how much the proposed provisions would cost taxpayers.Â
At a time when Americans disapprove of the President’s handling of the health care issue, Senate Democrats seem to be pushing a new national health care plan that would expand Medicare and Medicaid. Republican Olympia Snowe, a moderate from Maine whom the Democrats are courting for a vote described it this way:
“My deep concern is about the breadth and scale of this legislation, taking it in a more expansionistic approach for government’s role rather than the reverse,”
There will be no spin from the Democrats on this issue: their bill will cost more, spend more and put government in charge of our health care system. Being that it appears the Democrats will have to take this plan to the floor without a single Republican vote, watch to see if they can hold their Caucus together on what has become a very unpopular piece of legislation.
Tags: Congressional Budget Office, Harry Reid, Health Care Reform, Olympia Snowe
