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WAVERING: Newly elected Democrats waver on health plan. ?Two freshly elected Democrats are waverin?

By Glenn Reynolds

WAVERING: Newly elected Democrats waver on health plan. “Two freshly elected Democrats are wavering in their support of healthcare reform, as a rancorous summer series of ‘town hall’ debates appears to be ­hardening opposition against the Obama administration. Frank Kratovil and Tom Perriello, who as freshmen congressmen would be expected to back the party leadership, both say proposals for expanding coverage to the uninsured are un­acceptable in their current form and should focus more on cost savings. . . . Mounting opposition among such newly elected legislators played a particularly important role in the collapse of the Clinton administration?s effort to push through healthcare reform in 1994.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on August 14, 2009 (boomark / email).