Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said today that the election of Republican Scott Brown in Massachusetts shows that “we do need to go slower on health care.”
ABC news reports that Feinstein is one of those Senate Democrats trying to apply the brakes on health care.
“I can tell you the situation has changed dramatically,” she said. “You see anger. People are worried. And when they’re worried they don’t want to take on a broad new responsibility.”
She continued:
I think we do need to go slower on health care. People do not understand it. It is so big it is beyond their comprehension. And if you don’t understand it when somebody tells you it does this or it does that and It’s not true, you tend to believe it, even though it isn’t true. It’s hard to debunk all of the myths that are out there.
Feinstein also said that though the American people want health care solved, it “doesn’t threaten them. The size of this bill threatens them. And that’s one of the problems that’s got to be straightened out.”
