The Republican National Committee (RNC) asked one question of President Obama and congressional Democrats on Wednesday: How will they pay for healthcare reform?
The RNC released a web video featuring a smattering of TV anchors and pundits pressing their guests on how the U.S. would finance a reformed healthcare system.
The video comes amidst a push over the cost and size of the healthcare deal.
The Obama administration has said that healthcare savings and waste elimination in spending could clear as much as $1 trillion in budget space over the next 10 years to finance the public (conservatives say “government-run”) option plan they favor for consumers.
But Republicans have pounced on a recent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) “scoring” of a version of that bill in the Senate saying such a plan would cost significantly more than that, and cover fewer additional consumers than expected.
The video most prominently features Fox News business anchor Stuart Varney, opining about the plan.
“Now that’s a gigantic price tag. If you extrapolate out, that only covers 1/3rd of the currently uninsured,” Varney, considered a more conservative anchor, says in the video. “Will Congress go along with a price tag like that? Will the voters go along with it?”
Watch the video below: