Senator McCaskill says she won’t ‘vote’ for a health bill that increases cost. Truth?

On Fox News Sunday, Senator Claire McCaskill (D – MO) stated:

“My statement all along is it has to slow down the increase of health care costs over time, and that is bending the cost curve, and secondly, that it has to be deficit neutral,” McCaskill said on “Fox News Sunday.

“We have to be saving more money for our government than we’re spending. And if we’re not saving more money for our government than we’re spending, then not only will I not support it, the president said he won’t support it,” she added

Let’s look at a couple of the statements.

First, Senator McCaskill says that President Obama won’t support a health care bill that increases government spending.  However, maybe she missed the fact that the President has signed bills that will increase our deficit by nearly two trillion dollars, even though he stated that he would make congress “pay as they go”.

Second, what remains to be seen is whether Senator McCaskill, Senator Lincoln and some other Democrats on the hot seat will play a game of CYA.  Vote for cloture (which requires 60 votes) and then vote against the actual bill when the dems only need 50.  This is the game that Blanch Lincoln and others are playing.  They think they can hit the campaign trail and say, “I voted against the health care bill.  Some try and claim I voted for it, but it isn’t true.  The vote they refer to was a procedural vote to end debate and call for a vote on a bill.  Check the record, I voted against the health care bill.”

Let’s hope Americans are smarter than McCaskill, Lincoln, President Obama and other Democrats think they are.