Former Senator Evan Bayh Admits Health Care Bill Does Not Stop Rising Health Costs

On Laura Ingraham‘s radio show today, former Senator Evan Banh discussed his vote for President Barack Obama’s plans for health care reform.

Although he voted for the bill – or, as he phrased it, he voted to “try and accomplish the things that were good in the bill, and then hope to change those things that were either absent or needed to be corrected in the bill” – he admits he has some qualms with it, particularly with the notion that it will keep health care costs down:

The real issue that was not addressed, Laura, that you’ve raised now, and I think appropriately, is the cost, the cost to both the government and to your listeners. We need to take steps now to get the costs of health care under control. That was not dealt with really in an aggressive way in this legislation. I think it now needs to be.

Have a listen to the segment, courtesy The Laura Ingraham Show:

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