Bill Frist on Health Bill: I’d Vote For It

(Blog Post) Frist also faults some in his own party for injecting alarmism into the debate. "Clearly, the death panels and public plan arguments have been overblown," he says. Frist noted that Republicans themselves voted for a Medicare prescription drug bill that would have established a version of a public plan--with the government negotiating directly with drug companies--if private-sector competition had failed to materialize. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Vincent Caminiti - Oct 2, 2009 - 2:01 PM PDT
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Interesting story about a former republican leader's views on the health care reform bill.

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