You folks are beating a dead horse-Reid. Daschle? He’s history.
HARRY GETS OBAMACARE PASSED BUT IT COST TAXPAYERS $4.3B—AKA THE bag lady’s “Louisiana Purchase”
LA Sen Mary Landrieu opposed OBAMACARE until the bill was rewritten to send a $300,000,000 payment to Medicaid for her home state. When two pages were added to the bill to place $300 million in Louisiana’s Medicaid system, she changed her web page in order to reflect her support of the program.....AKA the “Louisiana Purchase”.
when then ML Harry sent the bill up, it had “A typographical error” resulting in $4.3 billion in additional funds for Medicaid for Louisiana Landrieu. The presumed bag lady to buy votes was also called “a high-priced prostitute”.
On November 21, 2009, Landrieu voted with fifty-nine other Senators to bring the health care bill up for debate.
On December 8, 2009, she voted against the Nelson–Hatch–Casey amendment which proposed to ban federal funding for private plans that covered elective abortions but would have allowed individuals to purchase separate individual riders that would cover abortions.[34]
Prior to a concession of $300 million being added to the bill, Landrieu responded to a question on popular support of the public option, and asserted that the option has popular support because “when people hear ‘public option’ they hear ‘free health care’. Everybody wants free health care. Everybody wants health care they don’t have to pay for.”[37]
Landrieu voted for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (known as “Obamacare”) in December 2009. In September 2013, Landrieu voted to restore funding for the ACA that House Republicans had eliminated in their version of the funding bill.
She is no longer a Senator.