Senate GOP wants do-over on healthcare bill

[babylonsister]

http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2009/06/23/senate-gop-wants-do-over-on-healthcare-bill/

Senate GOP wants do-over on healthcare bill
@ 3:00 pm by Michael O'Brien

Senate Republicans want a do-over when it comes to healthcare reform legislation.


Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) argued Tuesday that the healthcare bill crafted by the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) committee was so fatally flawed such that it should be tossed by Senate leaders to start crafting a new bill from scratch.

"We've now had a week to consider to consider the Kennedy bill in the Health and Education Committee," Alexander, the chairman of the Senate GOP Conference, said after Republicans' weekly luncheon. "And it is so flawed that it can't be fixed, and we need to start over."

Alexander said that Republicans wanted a healthcare bill by the end of the year, echoing Democrats' talking points on the legislation — albeit with a different legislative outcome in mind.

"That's what happens when you have a partisan bill," Alexander added. "I mean, we know how to have a bipartisan bill on health care or any other area, and that's a group of us sit down together, share ideas and put something together. That's not what happened here."

The Tennessee lawmaker also disputed a New York Times poll that said Americans strongly desired a public (or "government-run") option on the final healthcare package, saying that the questions were asked in a "one-sided" way.

[Oregone]

1. "so fatally flawed such that it should be tossed" - I agree

Time for single-payer!

[tridim]

2. Nope, it's the GOP who are "fatally flawed" nt

[Catshrink]

3. Oh call the damn Whaaaambulance.

The Republicans have one thing to contribute to the debate: a big load of "NO."

[niceypoo]

4. Bipartisan?

Like the stimulus? Allow the republicans to take the teeth out of the bill, then none of them vote for it? Again? If the Democrats fall for that again it will be time to stick a fork in them.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Geez, I just can't stop crying. The GOP has just been so abused since January. It's heartbreaking!

[peace frog]

8. Not abused enough, imo

Hey GOPers, bite on this: The floggings will continue until your morale improves.
Morale not improving for you? More and harder floggings, coming right up.


Frickin' crybabies. :eyes:

[MNDemNY]

6. Cool...Toss it and start again with single payer.

[MarjorieG]

7. Who sent this to be rpiced before public option added, in Kennedy's absence.

A naysayer?

[TahitiNut]

9. Well ... it's sounding better and better. If the GOP hates it, it's got something going for it.

:shrug:

[babylonsister]

10. Ah, but the party of 'no' hates everything. nt

[librechik]

11. Dear GOP: WE DON'T CARE WHAT YOU THINK

Thanks for the input. Now STFU!