Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Unnamed Democratic Senator calls health care bill "political folly"

I wonder how many other Democratic members of Congress didn't like the health care bill, know it will increase health insurance rates (rather than lower them as the President promised), but voted for it anyway out of party loyalty?

From Howard Fineman of Newsweek:

"A Democratic senator I can't name, who reluctantly voted for the health-care bill out of loyalty to his party and his admiration for Barack Obama, privately complained to me that the measure was political folly, in part because of the way it goes into effect: some taxes first, most benefits later, and rate hikes by insurance companies in between."