Cornyn: There are 'some good things about the bill'
[cnn-photo-caption image= http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/images/09/08/art.jcornyn.gi.jpg caption="Republican Sen. John Cornyn said Tuesday that 'there are some good things' about the Senate's health care reform bill."]Washington (CNN) - Although he called the Senate health care bill a "budget buster," Republican Sen. John Cornyn said Tuesday that there are some parts of it that he can get behind.
The Texas lawmaker told CNN's Suzanne Malveaux that "there are some good things about the (health care) bill," like some wellness and prevention initiatives, delivery system reforms and requiring insurance companies to cover people with pre-existing conditions.
"Absolutely. There's bipartisan support for eliminating the pre-existing conditions exclusion," Cornyn said.
But he added that there should be "step-by-step approaches" to tackle the individual issues rather than this system overhaul.
"This bill does a lot, lot more," Cornyn said. "That's why it costs about $2.5 trillion over a ten-year full implementation period. This is a massive government takeover of health care."
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I agree with Sen. Cornyn. This bill is a massive government take over of health care.
The US Govt. is pathetic... and "dangerous!"
When will "We the People..." establish fiscal sanity within our government?
CitizenCongress2010
Yes ... the bill is far from perfect ... but it does have good points and its a start .... it's no longer reasonable to "stay the course" with health care reform for Americans. Too bad that everyone could not work together from the beginning ... rather than the heated rhetoric on dealt panels and killing grandma...
Does this guy know how read? It has been stated ad naseum that the bill costs less than 900 billion and reduces the deficit. What happened to the days when Senators actually could make an accurate statement?
But would two wars ever be considered a "budget buster" by John Cornyn? Or those mercenary contractors? Or what about the $1.5T tax break for the rich? Budget buster? How about tax cuts for companies that ship jobs overseas? Not having taxpayers, now that so many jobs are gone, is that a budget buster? And I could go on and on, but won't. You get the picture. But try to help us out here on Main Street with lower health care costs, and Lord knows, we can't have that! And all from guys (and a few gals) who have health care thanks to us. Amazing.
I'm not looking for a handout by any means, but a little regulation and some healthy competition may just bring down the cost of my monthly premiums to less than, instead of more than, my house payment. And lower drug prices could keep a few more of us alive. Is that too much to ask?
Expect a retraction tomorrow by Cornyn, the Tea Party won't allow any republican to say anything good about healthcare.
This is interesting. I heard one pundit say the republicans would do something like this. Like reagan said about medicare they aren't against it just want to make it better. It was a lie then and will be a lie when they say it in the near future. A real question I have is if 45000 Americans die in a year because they can't get health insurance. Does that mean the politicians that refuse to do anything about it are responsible for genocide. I know that's harsh but you get my point
What is good about cutting medicare and gov. take over and destroying our healthcare?????? WHAT????????
Oh, Senator Cornyn, so now there are some things that you can get behind. Once the American people find that the bill is really a pretty good one, you will certainly find more good things about it. Hypocrites.
Senator Cornynyou better watch your step you are not staying with the GOP script "this bill will be the end of the USA if it passes." There may be a right wing nut running aganist you in your next primary?
Also you may not be invited back on FOX nosie channel?
Watch it, Cornyn. You too can be replaced.
Oh Oh people........ Better watch out........The sky is falling..........Run for your lives........ The boogie-man is gonna get you..........The government is gonna take over health care........These clowns just don't know when to give it a rest. Grow up children, play time is over, now its time to get to work and actually earn your fat, taxpayer funded salaries and health care plans for once!.........Losers!
Whatever "good" there may be about this idiocy, it sure isn't worth $2.5 trillion.
The only real good that will come out of this is that we'll all know who to vote against next November–and, believe me, we will vote against them!
WOW, there are some good things in it, must have gotten your cut eh... Every one of you who vote for it will be out of office in 2010, being underemployed gives me alot of time to dedicate to that goal along with millions of others, you asshats have been wasting time on this health care but have done NOTHING to keep jobs in the US and kick start startups.
Some good things? Oh oh, the tea baggers are going to target him next!
Translation:
I know that me and my party are sold up to our eyeballs to the Insurance lobbyist, but maybe there are some teabaggers out there dumb enough to believe me.
Sorry senator, you can't condemn the bill and then feign agreeing with a part that you and your party would never agree to if you had the votes to succeed.
R. Sen. John Cornyn ,
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Be honest...
'But he added that there should be "step-by-step approaches" to tackle the individual issues rather than this system overhaul.'
I totally agree with Rep. Cornyn on this one. Every system needs regular audits, feedback, and even a redesign. Why do we wait this long to do system overhaul? Every Congress should re-evaluate our health care system and fix it to perfection like the French do annually. They have the best rated health care system in the world and their Universal Health Care Sytem costs less than half of our price per capita per year and yet it covers everyone.
Preston kathy why are you fooling around mr obama russ l said do not pass the bill take a vote and see what repubs have the guts to vote for the bill