Have a health care question, or rather a question about the details of the House health care bill, and it relates to a Congressional race and a choice in the Democratic primary for that race...
We have a candidate for Congress here in Arkansas, a Democrat no less, running for Vic Snyder's seat who said he would not have voted for the health care reform bill (presumbably the House) because he said it would cost the state an additional 300 million in medicaid costs.
I don't know if this is true or not. If it is, I guess I have to give the guy (Robbie Wills, the state House speaker and candidate to succeed Vic Snyder) a break. If he's lying I plan on busting him big over on my blog, Blue Arkansas. But again, I really don't know, and if someone could point me in the right direction, preferrably with a link either confirming that Wills is right or that he was lying/misinformed, it'd be much appreciated.
There is, by the way, an alternative to Wills in the primary-state senate majority leader Joyce Elliott, who has said she would have "probably" voted for the bill and "tried to make it as good as possible for the country". So if Wills is full of it, we have an alternative and need to know this now before the primary in May.
Thanks