4 months ago
Congressman Jim Marshall says he won't vote for the latest version of the health-care plan before Congress.
He says the plan introduced by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi won't do enough to cut costs. Unless that happens, he says, health care will bankrupt the nation.
Marshall has said for months that he can't support any of the several health-care overhauls filed in Congress this summer.
He says he plans a town-hall meeting in Macon within a couple of weeks to discuss health care and other issues.
On Thursday, Pelosi said new health care legislation will make affordable, quality health care available to nearly all Americans and represents a historic step.
Pelosi made the remarks on the West Front of the Capitol surrounded by Democratic lawmakers.
The retooled health overhaul bill she presented Thursday delivers on many of President Barack Obama's goals for reshaping the U.S. health care system. It represents months of negotiations to bridge differences between liberal and moderate Democrats.
The bill would extend coverage to 36 million more Americans, bar insurance companies from denying coverage based on health history and require employers to offer coverage to their workers. Anti-abortion protesters briefly disrupted Pelosi's remarks.
