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Key Point: NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg — a supporter of healthcare reform — criticizes the bill’s lack of transparency, sensibility, and consequences

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Many who have long touted health care reform are turning up their noses at the final product.

Michael Bloomberg, New York’s independent mayor, told “Meet the Press” over the weekend:

“I have asked congressperson after congressperson. Not one can explain to me what’s in the bill, even in the House version … And so for them to vote on a bill that they don’t understand whatsoever, really, you’ve got to question how — what kind of government we have.”

The mammoth 2,100-page health care bill passed by the Senate “makes no sense whatsoever — not to conservatives, not to liberals, not to anyone.”

“Rather than reform a system that everyone agrees is a failure, it will subsidize that system and compel participation in it.”  

Mr. Bloomberg added that his own reading of the Senate bill led him to conclude that it would blow a hole in the New York State budget and force closure of perhaps 100 health clinics.

Excerpted from WSJ: Like Mushrooms, Health Care ‘Reform’ Flourishes in the Dark, Dec. 28, 2009
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703278604574624230633163104.html?mod=djemEditorialPage

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