Dodd, Graham Spar Over Health Care

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Lindsey Graham says the Senate will not let the U.S. "go down the government-run health care road."

The South Carolina Republican was on a Sunday morning talk show repeating the charges of those opposed to President Barack Obama's attempts to overhaul the health care system. Graham said Obama's plan would let a government bureaucrat stand between people needing treatment and their doctors.

Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., who is heading the reform effort in the Senate, reminded Graham that a new poll showed the 72 percent of Americans want a government role in health care and expressed a willingness to pay higher taxes for that.

The senators appeared on ABC's "This Week."

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