Fox News Reports:
“It makes no sense at all and affronts common sense,” said Sen. Judd Gregg, one of several Republicans to criticize the measure. He added that a plan to expand Medicaid, the state-federal program for the poor, was a “bait and switch” with states as the victims.
The Washing Post reports the democrat plan would cost 848 billion but cut the federal deficit over 130 billion over the next 10 years. Huh?
But Republicans dismissed it as “another trillion-dollar experiment,” in the words of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.). Sen. Judd Gregg (N.H.) said the bill “may claim to be deficit-neutral, [but] it uses sleight-of-hand budgetary tricks by assuming unrealistic tax increases and Medicare cuts that members of Congress will not be willing to follow through on.”
Read the rest of the Washington Post article here.
Learn more about Rand Paul’s stand on Health Care reform here.
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