Weiner single payer amendment tanks

PRINT PAGE
EN ESPAÑOL

Nancy Pelosi starts clock on House health bill

By Patrick O’Connor and Chris Frates
Politico
October 29, 2009

(House Speaker Nancy Pelosi) backed down from a deal granting liberals a vote to establish single-payer government-run health care. She cut the deal with New York Rep. Anthony Weiner to break a last-minute logjam on the Energy and Commerce Committee. But, in the end, party leaders were concerned the final cost would be astronomical and the vote would fail to garner votes from even half the caucus.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28884.html

Comment:

By Don McCanne, MD

What the… !?