It's sad that our senators can't be good for goodness' sake so close to the holidays. I know that this blog has been featuring some posts that shed a positive light on the health care bills, but as with anything, there's always going to be some problems, and here are a few:
Nebraska, the state of once-skeptical Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson, would be exempt from paying for Medicaid's expansion, a gift worth $100 million, under the Senate plan. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., also negotiated $600 million in additional Medicaid benefits for his state over 10 years, and Massachusetts would get $500 million in Medicaid help. Louisiana would get $100 million in 2011 from the federal government for Medicaid
It's not surprising that Republicans are using this as their new ad hoc reason to oppose the bill, and while I can't disagree with them that this is a nice little steaming pile of BS, it wouldn't matter what this bill said. Republicans are going to oppose it because it is not a Republican bill. Their true goal lies in obstructing anything the Democrats plan to do, no matter the cost for the nation.
Having said that, there are still plenty of good reasons to pass the bill. We're aiming for "more perfect" not "perfect."
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