About these Democrats who voted No. So
many of them said, "This bill doesn't do enough to control health care
costs," or, "This bill is too expensive."
These arguments make no sense. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that the bill, at a cost of $940 billion, would cut $100 billion from the federal budget deficit over the next ten years. So the choice was between this bill, which cost $940 billion, and the status quo, which would cost $1040 billion.
Those were your only two choices! It's not like you had to choose between a bill that cut only $100 billion and a bill that cut, say, $500 billion. When you voted No, you voted for the more expensive plan--the status quo.
Everybody knows why you voted No. You voted No because your office was inundated with phone calls from geezers who trust Fox News like they once trusted Oral Roberts, who are being played for fools by Republicans who make the straight-faced argument that all the GOP wants is to stop Democrats from gutting Medicare. You like being a Congressman. You want to keep on living in Washington DC rather than being consigned to the oblivion of practicing law in Lumberton, NC or Lexington, MO (two Congressional districts I've lived in whose Congressmen voted No).
So just tell it to us straight. Say, "I like my job, and I'm gonna vote to keep it so that I don't have to live and work among the people I represent."
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