The Senate bill, Space wrote, would 'saddle my constituents with a new financial burden they cannot manage.’' He complained that the Senate tax on expensive insurance plans would be 'an unfair penalty on the working families of my district.'

Yet sometime in the next week or so, Space will be asked to vote for the same Senate bill he so vigorously criticized. Exactly as it was written. Word for word, including such unpopular provisions as the millions of dollars in federal Medicaid money to Nebraska to win the support of Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson"

Read the Dayton Daily News article on the politics of health care reform.