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KENNETH P. VOGEL
Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean on Sunday predicted the Democratic health care overhaul - as currently construed - could hurt the party's chances in the 2010 midterm elections.
Dean, who clashed bitterly last week with the White House over compromises Democrats made in their effort to push through health care reform, said that the bill pending in the Senate "will be so complicated that the Republicans will make it a target, and we'll have a hard time explaining it."
Speaking on NBC's "Meet the Press," Dean particularly bemoaned Senate Democratic leaders' shelving last week of a proposed Medicare expansion that would have added millions of people to the federal programs rolls within months of enactment.
"That would have made 2010 a lot easier for us," said Dean, a former Democratic National Committee chairman.
