On the recordMarch 21, 2010
As a member of the Budget Committee, I have had the opportunity to hear the most specious, inaccurate, contradictory, and downright laughable arguments against health insurance reform. Take, for example, the argument that we need to start over because the Congressional Budget Office score had been done 17 months earlier and now was old and stale. And, oh, by the way, the debate has dragged on for 17 months. Yet, the minority simultaneously complains that somehow we are hurrying and ramming the bill through. Once the CBO score was recalculated demonstrating phenomenal deficit reduction, the complaint became that the CBO is playing number tricks. Of course, the minority trusts CBO when the scores work for them. The minority's plan is to allow insurance premiums to rise unregulated by government intervention, let a family of four's premiums double every decade, and end Medicare as we know it. {time} 2100 If the health insurance reform debate wasn't so serious, these arguments would be laughable.
