Cantor And Hoyer Meeting On Health Care Reform Today

House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA)
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House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) said on The Early Show that he’s meeting with House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer later today to try and narrow Republican and Democratic differences on health care reform.

“Today I’m going to sit down with Majority Leader Hoyer and try to look at the things we can agree upon,” Cantor said. He then proceeded to slam several parts of the Democratic health care reform plan.

On the CBO report that the $829 billion Senate Finance Committee health care bill would actually reduce the deficit by $81 billion over 10 years, Cantor said, “The claims that we’re saving $81 billion by spending $829 billion, you can say that if you wanna go ahead to really rob Peter to pay Paul.”

Cantor also said the committee’s bill would hurt seniors. “Seniors will have less opportunity, less benefit, less ability to choose the kind of health care they want.”

And the public health insurance option that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) insists will be included in a House health reform bill?

“That has been resoundingly rejected by the American people,” Cantor said.

Great. Sounds like he and Hoyer will have a lot of common ground to discuss today.

Late Update: Here’s the video.

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