From the Denver Post‘s Editorial Board on HR 3590:
Udall, Bennet should say “no”
Colorado’s senators should take a principled stand and vote against the travesty that the Senate health care bill has become.
In passing a test vote on health- care legislation in the early morning hours Monday, the Senate failed miserably in its goal of reining in our nation’s runaway medical costs. The situation is so dire, and the hour so late, that extraordinary action is necessary.
We call on Colorado Sens. Mark Udall and Michael Bennet to take a principled stand against the travesty the Senate legislation has become.
We do so because the deal-making and the concessions made to reach 60 votes have created a bill so poisonous to the stated ideals of both senators that they should be unable to attach their good names to its passage when it comes up for a scheduled vote on Christmas Eve.
To buy a “yes” vote from Sen. Ben Nelson, for example, the bill will fully fund the Nebraskan’s home-state Medicaid program, at a cost of hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars over the next decade.
