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 ...
Never mind the fact that Nationalized health insurance is unconstitutional. Republican politicians are just setting themselves up for a tremendous defeat by the voting members of their party if they don’t denounce this bill in its entirety.
In that case Frish is a slimly POS socialist.
Before anyone gets too upset, let's give Frist a chance to respond directly to these charges by Tumulty.
Any article by Karen Tumulty (and other Time writers) should be considered jaundiced, regardless of its topic.
She's not a friend of Conservatives, and would like nothing better than to sow dissent and confusion.
I recommend: Hold your powder and get Frist’s side of the story before passing judgment on Frist.
Thank you for the information. I’m glad I kept reading before making a comment!
I never liked this man. Even the way he talked was irritating. He seems like a number of other republicans that don’t have a clue as to why they were elected, or whom they represent.
How in the world did this guy “~ever~” end up Leader?
In a nutshell.
For him to call " leadership" to support a bill that will saddle America with more debt, taxpayers with more tax, and steal freedom makes it clear in my mind Bill Frist was never on the side of the American citizen.
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