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Murphy backs health reform
Glens Falls Democrat cites need to control costs, shift power from insurers to patients, get aid for device makers; Tonko also a "yes"

By JENNIFER A. DLOUHY, Washington bureau
First published in print: Saturday, March 20, 2010



WASHINGTON -- Rep. Scott Murphy declared Friday that he would vote for the $940 billion health care overhaul, saying it would shift the balance of power from insurance companies to patients and would rein in medical costs.

In an interview with the Times Union, Murphy, a Glens Falls Democrat, said the final health care package is "much more fiscally conservative" than a more liberal House-passed bill he opposed last November and would do a better job of reducing "skyrocketing health care costs," while still expanding insurance coverage to roughly 32 million uninsured people............>>>>............>>>>..........Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=913515#ixzz0iiomBMmN

It will definitely lower our taxes with all the pork that the Dems shoved into the bill that we have to pay for with our hard earned money.

no duh...another puppet of Obama...

I'm a Dem who does not like this bill.  I want healthcare for all folks but this is not the bill to get the job done.  Hope this turns out better than I expect.

It's going to turn out ugly in the long run.

They STILL DIDN'T cut the strings attached between the insurance companies/pensions/unions and their political donors.....WE JUST GOT FLOGGED INTO SUBMISSION TO FALSE SECURITY TO KEEP
THEIR CRAPPY PYRAMID RUNNING......dorks......

How are those bricks coming????? Get anymore straw????

There is no Moses coming.........

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20TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
Murphy defends health care reform vote as critics pounce
BY TATIANA ZARNOWSKI Gazette Reporter
Reach Gazette reporter Tatiana Zarnowski at 587-1780 or tzarnowski@dailygazette.net.

    While U.S. Rep. Scott Murphy said his vote on the health care bill will help local residents, Republicans have seized on the vote as proof Murphy isn’t the centrist he claims to be.
    “There’s nothing centrist about that vote. It’s a massive government takeover of the health care industry,” said Alex Carey, spokesman for the Republican Party of New York State.
    “There’s a lot of angst. There’s a lot of anti-incumbency.”
    In the last few weeks, Murphy, D-Glens Falls, has faced pressure from groups asking him to vote for the bill, which he calls fiscally conservative.
    Murphy cited the Congressional Budget Office report that said the bill would reduce the deficit by $1.3 trillion over the next 20 years.
    “This bill is truly fiscally conservative. It’s the largest deficit reduction measure passed in more than a decade,” Murphy said.
    “The president’s health care reform bill will change our fundamentally flawed health care system, expanding care to millions of Americans and slowing the outof-control growth in costs that is bankrupting our families and small businesses,” he said.
    The bill, which is expected to be signed into law as early as today, would extend health insurance coverage to 32 million uninsured Americans, prohibit insurers from denying coverage because of preexisting conditions, cut deficits and require most Americans to buy insurance.
    Murphy’s vote for the new bill but against the House version in November could allow the incumbent to sell himself to voters on both sides, said Skidmore College government professor Ron Seyb.
    “Politically, it kind of allows him to have it both ways,” Seyb said. “I think in some ways, voting ‘no’ and then being able to vote ‘yes’ actually works to his advantage.”
    Murphy explained his original “no” vote because he said the bill would not do enough to lower health care costs.
    “His objections [to the first bill] really were in terms of the adverse impact it would have on this district,” Seyb said. “Obviously, those concerns have been allayed in the Senate bill.”
    On the other hand, Murphy’s opponents can attack him as being “bought” by lobbyists when he voted for the second bill, Seyb said.
    That’s what the Republicans are already saying.
    “Obviously, President Obama got to him in all of his personal lobbying,” Carey said, citing deals that were struck to get certain congressmen on board with the bill. “There shouldn’t be this sort of lobbying and deal-making when there’s a bill that will affect this many Americans.” ...............>>>>....................>>>>...........http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r00800&AppName=1

Scott Murphy is a hard liberal, just like Tonko.