Dean says kill the Senate health bill: report
OPS_admin | Dec 16, 2009 | Comments 0
Update: Dean tells Good Morning America that he thinks health bill should be scrapped: Video at bottom
WASHINGTON — deanheated Dean says kill the Senate health bill: reportFollowing the jettisoning of both the public option and the Medicare buy-in provision, one of the nation’s leading progressive voices on health care reportedly said Tuesday that the Senate bill is no longer worth supporting.
“This is essentially the collapse of health care reform in the United States Senate,” former Gov. Howard Dean told political reporter Bob Kinzel of Vermont Public Radio. Kinzel relayed the news to The Plum Line’s Greg Sargent, and the full VPR interview will air at 5:50 pm today.
“Honestly the best thing to do right now is kill the Senate bill, go back to the House, start the reconciliation process, where you only need 51 votes and it would be a much simpler bill,” he said.
Dean has been an outspoken champion of the public insurance option, describing it as the central component of the legislation. A health care bill without it, he has said, is not worth supporting.
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