Senate bill masks threats to economy, taxpayers

 
The Oklahoman Editorial
Published: November 20, 2009

M AJORITY Leader Harry Reid unveiled Senate Democrats’ health care fig leaf Wednesday, and what a fig leaf it is — totaling $848 billion.

We call Reid’s merging of competing Senate health care bills a fig leaf for what it hides — more than $2 trillion in actual program spending — funded with tax increases and Medicare cuts, which legislates insurance mandates and an expanded governmen...


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