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Rove: Health Care Bill Is Gift to GOP

Backlash against spending will be 'boon' to party in 2010

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(Newser) – The GOP is winning the debate on health care and it'll win control of Congress as well if the Democrats manage to pass a health care bill, writes Karl Rove. Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus wants to "front-load" the bill with hefty tax hikes that will kick in before voters see any benefits, making the Democrats likely to feel the full fury of a voter backlash against tax-and-spend policies next year, Rove warns in the Wall Street Journal.

Independent voters, college graduates, and seniors are all strongly opposed to the bill, writes Rove, quoting poll figures from Fox and Gallup, and their votes will be crucial in 2010. The Democrats should remember that "there are two fights going on here—one over health care and another over which party will control Congress after next year's elections," Rove writes. "By waging the first, they may be setting themselves up to lose the second."

Former White House aide Karl Roves talks to reporters as he leaves a parking garage in Washington earlier this year.
Former White House aide Karl Roves talks to reporters as he leaves a parking garage in Washington earlier this year.   (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
Opponents of proposals to overhaul the US health care system protest on Independence Mall in Philadelphia last month.
Opponents of proposals to overhaul the US health care system protest on Independence Mall in Philadelphia last month.   (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Independents, college educated and seniors may oppose health care reform, but if Obama has halted his slide, congressional Democrats may be willing go for his whole health care reform enchilada.
- Karl Rove

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oldgoat
Oct 8, 09 4:17 AM CDT
It can go both ways. It can also be a boom to people that see having affordable health insurance and not being subject to all the exclusions that the insurance companies put on as a bonus. I think more important will be the economy and maybe Afghanistan. Reply
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Doctor_Zaius
Oct 8, 09 6:15 AM CDT
Look, Every country on the planet pays less for health-care than we do. There already is a black-hole medical insurance we shovel money into that "grows and grows" it's the system we already have.
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Doctor_Zaius
Oct 8, 09 7:38 AM CDT
I agree with you, it is the best country in the world. And a public option health-care system will make it better.
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Spudsy
Oct 8, 09 11:16 AM CDT
Stopthepresses2 - America says no to big government every time it votes out the GOP. Look it up. The biggest increases in federal government have come under Ronald Reagan and Bush number 2. Just another example of under educated voters believing anything the GOP says while standing in front of a flag. Under educated voters voting against their own self-interest.
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Unaffiliated
Oct 8, 09 12:01 PM CDT
@STP, if you love the American people so much, why are you so harsh to the Americans that post here?
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