It completely stinks that Shuler voted against the bill and his explanation here is totally lame.

I find Heath Shuler to be intellectually underwhelming, and he’ll only get my vote next time around begrudgingly—- in the old standard a “lesser of two evils” way of thinking.

Please, can we have representation from someone who can be more than a sock puppet? I find his explanation to be intellectually disingenuous. A DINO C-Streeter. Infuriating.

How much money have you received from Big Pharma and the Health Insurance industry, Shuler? Please tell us how great your health care is.

He basis his vote on an opinion expressed by the CBO which was issued prematurely. On NOvember 6, the CBO updated figures: “Over the 2010–2019 period, the net cost of the coverage expansions would be more than offset by the combination of other spending changes, which CBO estimates would save $427 billion, & receipts resulting from the income tax surcharge on high-income individuals and other provisions, which JCT and CBO estimate would increase federal revenues by $574 billion over that period.” http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/107xx/doc10710/hr3962Dingell_mgr_amendment_update.pdf