Frist says he'd vote for bill if still in Senate

[laughingliberal]

Guess they can be honest when they don't have a Senate seat to defend.

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Bill Frist on Health Bill: I'd Vote For It
Posted by KAREN TUMULTY Friday, October 2, 2009 at 3:21 pm
13 Comments • Trackback (1) • Related Topics: congress, health care, republicans, senate, bill frist
Or so the former Senate Republican Leader, a surgeon who has written a new book on health care, told me a few minutes ago in an interview.

Were he still in the Senate, "I would end up voting for it," he said. "As leader, I would take heat for it. ... That's what leadership is all about."

This is not to say that Frist is entirely happy with everything that is in the bill.

For one thing, he doesn't think it does nearly enough to bring costs under control. In his view, it does not fundamentally change the incentives that providers now have to provide more care, rather than better care. "There is really nothing to bend the cost curve," he says.

And Frist also predicts it will extend coverage to only 20 million or so additional Americans--far short of true universal coverage. Given the fiscal constraints, he says, he says a better approach would be to provide a more bare-bones package of benefits known as "catastrophic coverage" that would insure more people.

However, he strongly supports other aspects of the bill--most notably, its requirement that individuals be required to purchase coverage, if they do not receive health insurance through their employers or under government programs. And he also lauds the provisions that would eliminate practices that allow insurance companies to discriminate against people based on their health history, including pre-existing conditions.<snip>

http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/10/02/bill-frist-on-health-bill-id-vote-for-it/

[BlueDemKev]

1. Whatever, Bill....

...you and your right-wing buddies controlled Congress for a dozen years (with you as Senate Leader during the last four) and did absolutely NOTHING to reform the health insurance system. Now, that you're out of Congress, you expect us to believe you when you say "Oh yeah, I'd probably vote for health care reform."

Please stay in the O.R., Bill. And keep that mask over your mouth.

[yourout]

2. Yah right........

Not a fucking chance he would vote for a bill with a public option.

[spanone]

3. fuck you frist...your family HCA paid the largest fine ever for fraud against medicare

ONE POINT SEVEN BILLION