NEW YORK (YBH.ME) – Partial transcript of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s remarks regarding President Obama and Congress’ health care reform bills:
MAYOR BLOOMBERG: (emphasis ours) You know, if you really want to object to something in this bill, number one, I have asked congressperson after congressperson, not one can explain to me what’s in the bill, even in the House version. Certainly not in the other version. And so for them to vote on a bill that they don’t understand whatsoever, really, you got to question how–what kind of government we have. Number two, when they talk about bending the curve, as, as the governor said, bending the curve is a flimflam euphemism for increasing costs, but we’re going to say we’ll do it at slightly lower rate than we would have otherwise.
GOV. PATRICK: That’s not what I’m talking about.
MAYOR BLOOMBERG: I understand that. But they are not talking about reducing costs, they’re talking about chancing the first derivative.
MR. GREGORY: Slowing it, right.
MAYOR BLOOMBERG: Slowing the growth down. And when you look at where the cost savings are going to be, well, they’re going to cut something out of Medicare and Medicaid. Now, anybody that runs for office will tell you, you don’t do that.
MR. GREGORY: Right.MAYOR BLOOMBERG: I mean, the bottom line is it’s so politically explosive, it really would be a first time in the history of the world if they ever cut anything out of either of those two programs.
Mayor Bloomberg appeared on the show with Newt Gingrich and Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick.
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