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New Elements Added to Health Care Reform Debate
22 hours ago ago from The Alan Katz Health Care Reform Blog
I haven’t been writing much of late. The Senate debate has simply been too predictable to merit much comment. The partisan attacks could have been scripted months ago. The votes unsurprising, and the difficulty Democratic Leaders face in fashioning a 60-vote majority is to be expected. Consider: Republicans charge the Democrats will destroy Medicare. The fact that not long ago it was the GOP wanting to eliminate waste and abuse from the ...
Related contentPublic option compromise: Does it achieve anything? Bonus question: Harry Reids mouth: Does it achieve anything? | Select Your Vote
2 hours ago ago from Select Your Vote
David Orentlicher : The public option compromise likely will do little to achieve the option's main purpose the containment of health care costs but its real value lies in its ability to ensure that there are 60 votes for the Senate bill. If the compromise paves the way for passage, it achieves a great deal. As the compromise indicates, the health care legislation continues to evolve into an approach of expanding access now and ...
Related contentA watered-down public option, or not? Internet Scofflaw
20 hours ago ago from Internet Scofflaw
Democrats trying to work out a compromise (among themselves) on health care reform have a new proposal : They may still call it a public plan, but private insurers not the government would offer coverage under a compromise Democrats are considering to win Senate passage of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. The latest idea bears little resemblance to the original vision outlined by liberals, and embraced by Obama, during ...
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10 hours ago ago from Unreined
There are reports that a group of 10 conservative and progressive Democratic senators charged with finding a compromise to get health care past a GOP filibuster have tentatively come to an agreement. They would scrap the public option as we know it and replace it with two fixes. One would be a government sponsored national insurance plan which would compete on the open market. This plan would be similar to the insurance offered to members ...
Related contentTHE BLOG LINE: 55 -- Too Young for Senior Discounts but Perfect for Medicare
8 hours ago ago from AHLAlerts
As Senate Democrats continue their seemingly endless negotiations over a public health insurance plan, a new proposal has been added to the mix that would, among other things, allow people between ages 55 and 64 to buy in to Medicare. The idea, aimed at gathering the support of liberal Democrats who want a robust public plan in the chamber's health reform bill ( HR 3590 ), would be added alongside a proposal to allow the federal Office of ...
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Senate Turns to Medicare, Medicaid
16 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats are considering a significant expansion of Medicare and Medicaid, the health programs for the elderly and the poor, as part of a package of potential changes to health-overhaul legislation that would also sharply scale back a proposed new government-run insurance plan. The proposals have emerged in closed-door negotiations among 10 Democratic senators -- five moderates and five liberals -- assigned by party ...
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12 hours ago ago from FanHouse
WASHINGTON -They may still call it a "public plan," but private insurers not the government would offer coverage under a compromise Democrats are considering to win Senate passage of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. The latest idea bears little resemblance to the original vision outlined by liberals, and embraced by Obama, during the 2008 presidential campaign. That called for the government to sell insurance to workers and ...
Related contentDitching the Public Option Could Produce a Better Health Care Bill
20 hours ago ago from Politics Daily
It may be too soon to write a requiem for the public option, but I'm going to do it anyway and hope that the Senate fallback is even better: A bunch of creative ideas topped by opening up Medicare to younger Americans. The public option in the Senate was devolving into a shadow of what I and others had envisioned at the start of the health reform process -- that is, a publicly administered, non-profit insurance plan that would compete with ...
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22 hours ago ago from Media General - SCNow.com
Search: Keyword Site Web | RSS + - Text Size Print Share This LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Public option in health care DEAR EDITOR Published: December 7, 2009 After listening to all the right wing insurance company lackey's attacks on the public option its obvious that the smoke screen must be blown away. Representative ...
Related contentLiberal Senators Press for Expansion of Medicare
16 hours ago ago from The New York Times
WASHINGTON In return for concessions on their proposal for a new government-run health insurance plan, liberal Democratic senators pushed Monday for expansion of Medicare and Medicaid and more stringent federal regulation of the insurance industry. Luke Sharrett/The New York Times Senator Saxby Chambliss, speaking at a news briefing by Republican critics of the health bill. The Senate seal fell off the lectern. A ...
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