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Liberal outrage over the Senate’s health care reform bill is reaching a boiling point, with a number of organizations, unions and House Democrats warning that the watered-down version they see creeping toward a vote will not survive in its current form.
The warnings suggest the controversial government-run insurance plan, as well as a proposed expansion of Medicare, could be brought back to the table down the road even though Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid stripped those ideas from his package — mainly to appease moderates like Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman.
Former Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean has been the most vocal opponent of the Senate bill, calling for the Senate to kill the package and writing in a column Thursday that it would “do more harm than good” for the country.
“I know health reform when I see it, and there isn’t much left in the Senate bill,” he wrote in an opinion article published in the Washington Post.
But the former Vermont governor, who has no vote in Congress, isn’t the only one with a gripe.
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Updates:
2:17 pm EST, December 17th, 2009 – Howard Dean, Movement Leader (UPDATED)
2:24 pm EST, December 17th, 2009 — “Scary Harry”
3:29 pm EST, December 17th, 2009 – Obama faces backlash from Left over health care
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US politics can be so messy. Heh.
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