Former Obamacare supporter Mayor Bloomberg says that no one’s read the health care bill
Yet another former supporter of Obamacare is now criticizing it. York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg had been referred to by the White House as a pro-healthcare reform advocate. Now, Bloomberg is raising concerns about the bill and the process. Bloomberg, like many Mayors and Governors around the country, has major concerns about what Harry Reid’s bill will do to the New York budget, and he is concerned that it could lead to over a hundred health care clinics in New York being shut down.
Mayor Bloomberg is bothered by a fact that doesn’t seem to phase Democratic Congressmen that voted for the House or Senate bill:
“”You know, if you really want to object to something in this bill, number one, I have asked congressperson after congressperson,” Bloomberg told The Huffington Post. “Not one can explain to me what’s in the bill, even in the House version — certainly not in the other version.”
“”And so for them to vote on a bill that they don’t understand whatsoever, really, you got to question how — what kind of government we have,” Bloomberg added. “Number two, when they talk about bending the curve — as the governor said — bending the curve is a flimflam euphemism for increasing costs, but we’re going to say we’ll do it at slightly lower rate than we would have otherwise.”
“”They are not talking about reducing costs,” he concluded. “They’re talking about changing the first derivate, slowing the growth down. And when you look at where the cost savings are going to be, well, they’re going to cut something out of Medicare and Medicaid. Now anybody that runs for office will tell you, you don’t do that. I mean, the bottom line is it’s so politically explosive, it really would be a first time in the history of the world that they ever cut anything [from those programs].”"
Bloomberg is raising a concern that voters all across the country have — how can a Congressman vote for a bill that he hasn’t read?
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