By Ben Fractenberg
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — Mayor Michael Bloomberg has mixed views on the health care reform bill signed into law on Tuesday.
"It does not address the total cost of health care in our country, it does not address the fact that we spend double what they do in Western Europe and have a lower life expectancy, but it does address coverage," the mayor told reporters on Monday, the New York Post reported. "It's a system we can't afford in total in this country, and a system that's not delivering the kind of health care that we want."
Bloomberg also spoke out against the proposed Medicare payroll tax that will be imposed on people making more than $200,000 a year and on couples who earn more than $250,000 annually.
Still, he said he was “impressed” by a deal negotiated by Sen. Charles Schumer and other New York Congressional delegates to save Medicare revenues that would have been cut from New York City, the Daily News reported.
Now that Congress had decided the issue, and President Barack Obama has signed the bill, all that's left for the city is to live with the decision.
"At this point, Congress has spoken," he told reporters. "The president will sign it and then we'll have to implement it. And that's where I'm going to focus my efforts."
