Feingold blasts health reform ‘deal making that secured votes’
OPS_admin | Dec 25, 2009 | Comments 0
Following the passage of the Senate health reform bill Thursday, Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) slammed the special deals President Obama and the Democratic leadership cut with recalcitrant senators down the stretch.
“The Senate health care bill is far from perfect,” Feingold said in a statement backing the bill. “I am deeply disappointed it does not include a public option to help keep down costs and I also don’t like the deal making that secured votes with unjustifiable provisions.”
Feingold’s criticisms appear to be directed primarily at the leadership’s acquiescence to the recent demands of Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NB) and Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) — both of whom were critical to achieving the 60 backers necessary to proceed to a final vote.
Nelson’s sweetener exempted his home state of Nebraska to pay Medicaid expenses, instead ensuring that the federal government picks up the tab. The Congressional Budget Offices estimates that it will save Nebraska hundreds of millions of dollars in the next decade.
Prosecutors in seven states have questioned the Constitutionality of such a compromise, the Associated Press reports.
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