Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) issued a statement Wednesday morning regarding Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus’ draft health care reform bill. Here’s the full text:
“This partisan proposal cuts Medicare by nearly a half-trillion dollars, and puts massive new tax burdens on families and small businesses, to create yet another thousand-page, trillion-dollar government program. Only in Washington would anyone think that makes sense, especially in this economy.”