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Defend America on Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:08:03 PM
The $100 Million Health Care Vote?
November 19, 2009 3:03 PM
ABC News' Jonathan Karl reports:
What does it take to get a wavering senator to vote for health care reform?
Here’s a case study.
On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal
Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recovering from a major
disaster.”
The section spends two pages defining which “states” would qualify,
saying, among other things, that it would be states that “during the
preceding 7 fiscal years” have been declared a “major disaster area.”
I am told the section applies to exactly one state: Louisiana, the
home of moderate Democrat Mary Landrieu, who has been playing hard to
get on the health care bill.
In other words, the bill spends two pages describing would could be
written with a single world: Louisiana. (This may also help explain
why the bill is long.)
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/11/the-100-million-health-care-vote.html