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November 19, 2009

$100 Million for Mary Landrieu's Health Care Vote?

ABC News' Jonathan Karl reports:

 

What does it take to get a wavering senator to vote for health care reform?

 

Here’s a case study.

 

On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recovering from a major disaster.”

 

The section spends two pages defining which “states” would qualify, saying, among other things, that it would be states that “during the preceding 7 fiscal years” have been declared a “major disaster area.”

 

I am told the section applies to exactly one state:  Louisiana, the home of moderate Democrat Mary Landrieu, who has been playing hard to get on the health care bill.

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