Posted on 10/02/2009 2:09:32 PM PDT by re_tail20
Or so the former Senate Republican Leader, a surgeon who has written a new book on health care, told me a few minutes ago in an interview.
Were he still in the Senate, "I would end up voting for it," he said. "As leader, I would take heat for it. ... That's what leadership is all about."
This is not to say that Frist is entirely happy with everything that is in the bill.
For one thing, he doesn't think it does nearly enough to bring costs under control. In his view, it does not fundamentally change the incentives that providers now have to provide more care, rather than better care. "There is really nothing to bend the cost curve," he says.
And Frist also predicts it will extend coverage to only 20 million or so additional Americans--far short of true universal coverage. Given the fiscal constraints, he says, he says a better approach would be to provide a more bare-bones package of benefits known as "catastrophic coverage" that would insure more people.
(Excerpt) Read more at swampland.blogs.time.com ...
Jellyfish Frist weighs in.
Another very big reason the GOP went down the tubes.
Frist’s lack of conservative principles and leadership skills are a BIG reason that we ended up with the likes of Bambi as POTUS.
Moron.
He’s a doctor and would vote for this idiotic bill? Has he lost his mind?
And Trent Lott would probably vote for it too.
Glad Frist is gone!
Frist’s family owns the largest for profit haspital association. He is a whore.
But would he read it?
That’s the question everybody should be asking his or her senator, especially in light of Senator Carper’s shockingly honest statement that he would never bother to read the bill because it’s simply impossible to understand!
I NEVER trusted this weasely RINO!
Consider the source. This man is one of the prime reasons the Republicans lost the Senate. He is also up to his ears in health-care conflict of interest.
I never did think he was with us on this. The squish.
But would he put himself and his family into the plan? Would he still vote for it if those who vote for it have to use it? This is a minimal demand we have a right to expect as leading by example and a show of good faith.
I will wait until Frist tells us what he really said.
I believe Glenn Reynolds emailed him on this and his response was that he did not support the Baucus bill.
Glad he's out of office.
Another “conservative” leader showing us all that he never really was a conservative, just a big government guy.
Geesh, Frist.....COST SAVINGS was supposed to be the REASON for this CRAP BILL! And you will STILL vote for it....no WONDER we are so screwed.
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