Fearing a New Shellacking, Democrats Rush for Economic Message on Health Care
With the Supreme Court poised to rule on the constitutionality of President Obama’s health care law, Democrats in Congress raced to use the issue as a rallying cry for the November elections.
Democrats in the House of Representatives rolled out plans to include health care “fact checks” in their election-year advertisements, and the Senate Finance Committee scheduled a committee markup of their latest economic stimulus proposal. The White House released a new “fact sheet” and called for “conversations on the health care law” at public events.
All the attention has only made health reform even more difficult to carry.
While the Affordable Care Act has been a boon for the American family, it has also left the federal government with a huge, unsustainable federal spending problem.
Over the past year, the Congressional Budget Office has estimated that over half of the nearly $100 billion in federal spending for next year’s Medicare trust fund will be for the new law.
With the Supreme Court poised to rule on the constitutionality of President Obama’s health care law, Democrats in Congress raced to use the issue as a rallying cry for the November elections.
Democrats in the House of Representatives rolled out plans to include health care “fact checks” in their election-year advertisements, and the Senate Finance Committee scheduled a committee markup of their latest economic stimulus proposal. The White House released a new “fact sheet” and called for “conversations on the health care law” at public events.
All the attention has only made health reform even more difficult to carry.
While the Affordable Care Act has been a boon for the American family, it has also left the federal government with a huge, unsustainable federal spending problem.
Over the past year, the Congressional Budget Office has estimated that over half