Dec 24, 2009

Senior Democrat says kill Senate health bill and start over

A senior Democrat atop a powerful committee said on Wednesday the healthcare bill is fatally flawed.

Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.), the chairwoman of the House Rules Committee and co-chairwoman of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus, said that the Senate's bill is so flawed that it's unlikely to be resolved in conference with the bill to have passed the House.

"The Senate health care bill is not worthy of the historic vote that the House took a month ago," Slaughter wrote in an opinion piece for CNN's website.

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