Bartender Chalk Up Another $210 Billion on My Tab

Written by David Frum on Friday November 20, 2009

With one Republican alongside, Democrats have voted to stop pretending that we're going to cut future Medicare payments to doctors. Well that's commendably honest I suppose. But now that we're admitting that the money will be spent, when do we state where the money will come from?

House passes doc fix 243-183.

With one Republican alongside, Democrats have voted to stop pretending that we're going to cut future Medicare payments to doctors. Well that's commendably honest I suppose. But now that we're admitting that the money will be spent, when do we state where the money will come from? The Dems' vote includes no funding mechanism. We’ll worry about that later, apparently.

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