EFFin’ Unsound

posted by Carl

Yay for Cantwell for voting the right way on one step in health care reform. I’m of a mind that I don’t really care if it adds to the deficit (although I’d prefer that it didn’t). But Carter Mackley takes a more strident view.

Received an email yesterday from Senator Cantwell announcing the 60-39 vote that advances the health care reform legislation to the Senate floor for debate.

This is not really a sentence.

In her email, she stated:

The health care reform bill is fully paid for, meeting President Obama’s directive that it add “not one dime” to the federal deficit.

I’d hold a higher concern that (this is a recording) sick people in America can get healthy and healthy people can stay that way. While it’s important to pay for this, compared to the cost of Iraq or Afghanistan, or the Bush tax cuts, it’d be pretty negligible even if we didn’t pay for it. But of course costs savings and tax increases will probably pay for it.

I hope she is right. Her email is going in the permanent file and we shall hold her to it.

Oh boy, I totally believe that you’ll issue a statement saying health care reform helped the deficit and Cantwell is brilliant in 10 years.

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