RNC Chairman Michael Steele released the following statement today on the Senate Health Care vote. Here’s the full text:
“Very early this morning, as the majority of Americans were asleep, Harry Reid and his liberal allies quietly got one step closer to enacting their 2,700-page government-run health care experiment with absolutely no input from Republicans and absolutely no care for the American people’s opposition. For months concerned citizens have been telling Democrats that they don’t support their plan and with this vote Democrats have shown they aren’t listening to their concerns. I don’t know about you but I am sick and tired of it. President Obama and Harry Reid will claim that they have reached a grand compromise benefitting all Americans. But I would call it a grand deception because this costly government-run plan still increases premiums and health care costs, still cuts Medicare, and still forces Americans to pay for it with hundreds of billions in new taxes during the worst of economic times. A top down bureaucratic government-run health care system that will cost nearly a trillion dollars is not what the American people want. If the liberals in Congress don’t understand this by now – they will when the voters give them a pink slip in 2010.”
