Not all conservatives are impressed with medicare legislation

[drfemoe]

*this is from a conservative web site*

It is interesting that Heritage is criticizing the bill.
I thought they shared the same brain?

http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0028879.cfm

..."Republicans supporting the bill say they're relying on support from a coalition of business and health care groups such as the AARP. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is one of those Republicans, and he hailed the legislation, which has emerged after six years of negotiating and partisan gridlock.
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Not all conservatives are impressed with the legislation, though. The Heritage Foundation's Derrick Hunter said needed reforms in the Medicare system have been gutted from the bill.

"This bill," he said, "has gone from actual reform to just a massive expansion of a government entitlement that's going to cost seniors their private insurance they have now and going to cost future generations thousands of dollars of new taxes and going to take away health care choice from seniors that they all deserve."

Several Democrats have expressed similar sentiments over the legislation, arguing that it undermines the traditional government-run Medicare program. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., has gone so far as to hint at a Senate filibuster if the bill passes the House."

[Cleita]

1. Oh please Senator Kennedy filibuster please if it passes the house.

I wrote my Rep. Bill Thomas, who is head of the Ways and Means Committee, not to pass it, which is funny because it's his bill, but no harm in trying.