Dodd: Health reform bill ‘hanging by a thread’

There's still hope left. Apparently many Dems are not happy with all the compromises required to get the Health Care bill rammed through.


Prison Planet

On his way out the door, retiring Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn) has some bad news for health reform advocates still cheering the late December Senate vote.

“Health care reform is ‘hanging on by a thread,’ and one or two votes could determine the outcome of the heavily-debated bill, Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd told CNBC Monday,” the cable business news network reports.

Dodd said you would have to be “living on the moon” not to know what senators have already gone on the record with having issues with the plan, citing Nebraska’s Ben Nelson, Connecticut’s Joe Lieberman and Senator Blanche Lincoln from Arkansas.

“Everyone feels, I guess, to some degree who have been for this, that they would have liked something different, and that’s not uncommon when you’re considering an issue of this magnitude,” Dodd said.

Could it be? Is the Health Care monstrosity headed for the dustbin?

Or could this be Dodd's way of calling on the Dems to unite to get this bill rammed through?

The National Review’s Corner quotes a “senior GOP Senate staffer” responding to Dodd:

Sounds like there is a full-scale operation underway to convince liberals: Unite, you have nothing to lose but your principles. They’re working over the progressive caucus, Big Labor, and other Lefty groups to convince them that a bad bill is better than no bill. They have no margin for error, so they’re doing everything they can to unite groups who dislike the bill.

How many think the Dems will throw away their principles in order to get this severely flawed legislation through?



[edit on 12-1-2010 by FortAnthem]