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Throwing It All Away
18 hours ago ago from Docudharma - Front Page
From TPM Hoyer: House Will Accept Public Option-Free Bill House Democrats can't always get what they want, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told reporters today. But if they spin it right, he said, they just might find they got what they need. Faced with a likely public option-free health care reform bill from the Senate, Hoyer said House Democrats will vote to move the reform process forward without government-run insurance included. Much as his ...
Related contentLieberman May Support Senate Health Reform Bill If Public Option Removed
5 hours ago ago from Smart and sil
What A difference a day makes a classic song says.. Senator Joseph I Lieberman now says he'll support the senate Health Care Reform bill IF the public option is not in the bill. On Sunday, Lieberman say he is against the bill in the current form which would expand Medicare by lowing the age threshold from 65 to 55. Lieberman told reporters that if the government option Medicare expansion eliminated I'm going to be in a position ...
Related contentWhy Are The Left So Obsessed With The Public Option?
13 hours ago ago from Conservative Cabbie
Darling of the liberal left, Howard Dean , has declared the Senate healthcare bill dead after the loss of the Public Option (and it's medicare buy-in surrogate): This is essentially the collapse of health care reform in the United States Senate. Honestly the best thing to do right now is kill the Senate bill, go back to the House, start the reconciliation process, where you only need 51 votes and it would be a much simpler bill. The ...
Related contentAcceptance, My Ass
23 hours ago ago from Zandar Versus The Stupid
And we've managed to work through the whole Kubler-Ross thing on the death of the public option and we've arrived at the final stage: acceptance . Faced with a likely public option-free health care reform bill from the Senate, Hoyer said House Democrats will vote to move the reform process forward without government-run insurance included. Much as his colleagues in the Senate Democratic leadership did last night , Hoyer said the political ...
Related contentHoward Dean: "Kill the bill."
22 hours ago ago from 55-40 Memphis
Greg Sargent : In a blow to the bill grinding through the Senate, Howard Dean bluntly called for the bill to be killed in a pre-recorded interview set to air later this afternoon, denouncing it as “the collapse of health care reform in the United States Senate,” the reporter who conducted the interview tells me. Dean said the removal of the Medicare buy-in made the bill not worth supporting, and urged Dem leaders to start over with the ...
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BBC News - Obama calls Senate Democrats for key healthcare talks
1 day ago ago from BBC
Sen Lieberman is playing a pivotal role in the debate US President Barack Obama has called Democratic senators to the White House for talks aimed at getting healthcare reform passed by the end of the year. Tuesday afternoon's meeting comes amid signs of further compromise on the bill in order to garner the 60 votes needed for it to pass in the Senate. A key figure is Joe Lieberman, an independent whose vote is vital to ...
Related contentGoodbye, Public Option, Hello Senate Bill? Hoyer Vows, 'Not Going to Happen'
17 hours ago ago from Politics Daily
Setting up yet another intraparty battle, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Tuesday that although he thinks the House would be willing to vote for a bill without a public-run insurance option, they will most definitely not accept the Senate bill in full without a conference committee to debate the competing versions of a reform package.
Related contentLinda Bergthold: It takes guts to support health reform
6 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
At this point in the legislative process, let's pay some attention to those legislators who have not been grandstanders (e.g. Rockefeller, Weiner, Harkin, Feingold, Warner). Let's focus on those who have mostly kept their mouths shut in public but have worked behind the scenes to make health reform legislation stronger. It takes guts for them to be positive and humble when it's so easy to be negative and famous. Most Senators and public ...
Related contentObama urges Senate to pass health-care bill; Lieberman signals support
7 hours ago ago from Washington Post - Politics
President Obama urged Senate Democrats on Tuesday to overcome lingering disputes and push a health-care overhaul through the chamber before Christmas, as vigorous negotiations continued behind the scenes to lock down the last votes needed for final passage. This Story Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.), once a critic of the legislation, appeared to be warming to the $848 billion package after Senate leaders said ...
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17 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Time magazine this week had a special issue , "The Year in Pictures." Now we should take the picture of this year in politics. People, places, and politics are never the same, so a snapshot in words forbids exceptions for a quicker and better understanding of the politics. Democrats are for spending and understand that you have to pay the bill with taxes. Regularly responsible, the Democrats instituted the budget process, and according to ...
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