Nationalized health care worries me.
Excerpt from AP:
AP – Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., holds up a stack of documents comprising of the health care reform bill …First up for the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, which Dodd is heading in Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s absence, were amendments to improve quality and efficiency. But the debate quickly shifted to more contentious issues including the overall cost of enacting President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority of reshaping the nation’s health care system to bring down costs and extend insurance to 50 million Americans who lack it.
“You could end up with a bill that’s easily headed to a $2 trillion price tag,” complained Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., as he offered an amendment that would require proof that various quality measures such as training and identifying best practices would actually save money.
The committee rejected his amendment, as Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., contended it would be “throwing sand in the gears.”
An amendment by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, would have limited the use of research comparing the effectiveness of various medical procedures — a hot-button issue for Republicans because they say it could lead to health care rationing. It, too, was rejected on a 13-10 party-line vote.
