Doggett Down on Baucus Plan
Austin congressman calls new plan "capitulation"
By Lee Nichols, 10:32AM, Wed. Sep. 16, 2009
Austin Congressman Lloyd Doggett apparently isn't too enamored of Montana Democrat Max Baucus' new Senate health care reform bill. In a statement just released by his office, he said:
“Seldom have so many waited so long for so little. This isn’t negotiation; it is capitulation to the insurance industry.“To those who keep declaring a voluntary Medicare-type public option dead on arrival, I say today’s proposal represents no option whatsoever for the genuine health insurance reform that President Obama promised last year and that Americans deserve.”
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