The Congressional Budget Office has just announced their take on the Senate Healthcare Reform Bill, and they peg it at $849 billion over 10 years (less than Obama had said he was looking for), and state that it will REDUCE the budget by $127 billion over the same period. You know the CBO, don't you Joe? That same body you have been quoting for months now, as the primary reason why you won't support reform? Because you couldn't stand the thought of passing on a huge debt to your (embarrassed) grandchildren? Because Healthcare Reform would only add to the deficit? And used them (the CBO, I mean) to give credence to your obstructionist ways?
Whatever are you going to use now to hold back the tide of public support, which has been crying for years (decades, really) for relief? It seems that the bill would cover 94% of Americans, which is a big improvement though not the best solution (see my blog of Oct. 27). What are you going to say now? Maybe that Healthcare Reform causes warts? Or are you afraid that a public option will "undermine the private insurance market' as Mary Landrieu has said? Let's all cry some crocodile tears for the underprivileged, private insurance market.
Maybe it's time to get the insurance industry dick out of your mouth and say "yea" when the vote comes up.
I'm also talking to you, Mary Landrieu, Ben Nelson, and Blanche Lincoln.
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