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Matt Miller: Repeal Obamacare On One Condition

Staff Reporters |
January 19, 2011 | 12:02 p.m. PST

Tea Partiers rally in D.C. in 2010 to stop the health care bill. (Photo by Fibonacci Blue via Flickr)
Tea Partiers rally in D.C. in 2010 to stop the health care bill. (Photo by Fibonacci Blue via Flickr)
Matt Miller, a co-host of public radio's "Left, Right & Center" and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, writes in a column for the Washington Post that he will only accept the repeal of Obama's health care legislation if the GOP does one thing: write their own bill.

He writes:

The logic is simple. If Republicans are serious, they have to accept that it's a national priority to make sure that every American has basic health coverage. Thirty million isn't enough, of course, because the ranks of the uninsured still hover around 50 million. But since Democrats could only muster the will to cover 30 million, that's all we can expect the GOP to match as a measure of seriousness. (Though I'd be happy to see them shame Democrats with a plan to cover more).

The Republican-controlled House of Representatives recently began debating the repeal of the health care bill, which is expected to pass in the House by the end of the week. The repeal, though, is not likely to make it through the Senate.

To read the rest of Miller's the column, click here.



 

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