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Brown: health care 'wrong'

By Matt Viser, Globe Staff

WASHINGTON – US Senator Scott Brown this morning railed against the Democrats’ health care plan, saying they were failing to learn the lessons from his own surprising election in Massachusetts.

“I was sent here in a message almost, to the administration and people up on Capitol Hill that the American people expect us to do better,” Brown told a conference of the National Association of Health Underwriters. “You’re going to basically ram through something that is really unpopular and is clearly not good for the people in my state.”

Brown, in his most extensive public comments on health care since arriving in Washington, also criticized Democrats for considering using the budgetary reconciliation process to approve the health care overhaul. That process would require a majority vote instead of the 60 needed to overcome the expected Republican filibusters.

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