McConnell: Health bill vote "a stark reminder"

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the following statement regarding the trillion-dollar health care spending bill narrowly passed by the House:

The government-run plan that narrowly passed the House Saturday was rejected by one in seven House Democrats and a majority of Americans. It should serve as a stark reminder that Americans don’t want a 2,000-page, trillion-dollar government experiment—they want commonsense reforms.

Soon, Senate Democrats will propose their own version. We don’t know how big it will be or how expensive, but we do know with certainty that it will mean higher premiums, higher taxes and massive cuts to Medicare to create even more government programs. That’s not reform.

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