Health care lawsuit gets mixed support from GOP Senators
- 32 GOP Senators signed a legal brief challenging the constitutionality of the health care reform law
- nine GOP Senators refused to join in; Lisa Murkowski, Scott Brown and Judd Gregg are amongst the group source
Why didn’t they sign?
- We are not going to be able to talk about it. We just aren’t going to talk about that.
- Otto Heck, Judd Gregg’s spokesman • “Explaining” why Gregg didn’t sign the legal brief, prepared by Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, that most of his Republican colleagues supported. Almost a third of McConnell’s caucus broke ranks here, a surprisingly high number given the general solidarity of GOP opposition to HCR.
My guess? They know HCR is a good thing and that a lot of their constituents are already benefiting from it. What are they going to do, make it so that you can’t get insurance if you have a pre-existing condition again? Our health care system was broken at a very fundamental level, and HCR addressed a lot of it.
(Source: shortformblog)
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My guess? They know HCR is...that a lot of their constituents
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