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If Ellsworth is a 'yes,' then there really are no votes to spare, but the votes are probably there
By: David Freddoso
Online Opinion Editor
03/20/10 12:25 AM EDT
Rep. Brad Ellsworth, D-Ind., Indiana Democrats' likely nominee for the U.S. Senate, will vote "yes" on health care. This probably makes his run for Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh's seat futile. Immediately upon his announcement, former Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind., attacked:
COATS: VOTING 'YES' ON OBAMACARE AN ENORMOUS ERROR
INDIANAPOLIS (March 19, 2010) - Dan Coats, candidate for United States Senate, released the following statement in response to Congressman Brad Ellsworth's decision to vote in favor of Obamacare:
"I am shocked by Congressman Brad Ellsworth's decision to vote in favor of the irresponsible, radical and intrusive Obama-Pelosi job-killing health care bill. Congressman Ellsworth's decision, made in Washington apparently after some serious arm twisting by liberal special interests, goes against an overwhelming and consistent majority of Hoosiers who oppose this legislation.
Coats also summarized a letter from Mitch Daniels, which summarized what ObamaCare will do to the Hoosier State:
· The massive expansion of Medicaid will cost Hoosier taxpayers billions more in state taxes, leaving one in four Hoosiers on public assistance
· There will not be enough health care professionals to care for this huge new influx of Medicaid patients
· The Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP) would be eliminated, adversely affecting 45,000 Indiana families
· A study of the effects in Indiana showed premium increases ranging up to 78 percent
· A job killing tax of $2,000 per employee will be levied on many companies
· The costs for this massive entitlement expansion are vastly and misleadingly understated: An honest estimate would show an additional of more than a trillion dollars of national debt
If Ellsworth is being pushed into voting for this, you can bet that Speaker Pelosi has no votes to spare. But by the same token, you wouldn't be hearing him commit in public if she didn't have the votes.
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