Dem Rep: Let’s Carve Up Health Care Reform Bill! (VIDEO)

Rep. William Delahunt (D-MA)
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Rep. Bill Delahunt (D-MA) said today that he thinks Congress should carve up the health care bill and “have discrete votes” on “a series of bills that were brought up, over the next several months.”

On MSNBC today, Delahunt discussed what the Democrats should do in the wake of their shocking loss in the Massachusetts senate race. He first said that he doesn’t think Democrats have done a good job explaining health care reform to the American people, and so “now we’re gotta go back, we’ve got to look at how we go about telling the American people where health care is.”

He continued:

I think what we’re going to have to do is do it on an incremental basis. There are aspects of both bills that have broad support. Some of it bipartisan. I think we take those measures, bring them to the floor and vote on them, and explain them.

“I think that we would get a good policy out of a series of bills that were brought up over the next several months,” Delahunt said. “And what I think we should do is have discrete votes on all of the issues. Let’s fill the doughnut hole.”

When asked if he thought Democrats get Republicans to go along with the bills, Delahunt responded: “If they don’t go along with it, I think they do it at their peril.”

“I dare say, by the time the last one was voted on,” he said, “you’d find a bipartisan vote.”

Here’s the video:

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