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Many More Hurdles Until It is a Viable Bill
19 hours ago ago from Ilovebenefits's Blog
http://www.politico.com/livepulse/1209/Snowe_Medicare_buyin_loses_her_vote.html Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) said Thursday that she does not support the Medicare buy-in because it would “aggravate an already-serious problem” with the program – the low reimbursement rates for hospitals and doctors. “I have serious concerns,” Snowe told reporters. “I just think that is the wrong direction to take.” Snowe said she could not see a ...
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8 hours ago ago from POLITICO MAFIOSO
Senior Political Analyst 12/10/09 3:31 PM EST Liberal blogger Greg Sargent notes that Speaker Nancy Pelosi is no longer insisting that the House will not pass a health care bill without “public option” government insurance. And she indicated something like approval of the Medicare buy-in provision which Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is apparently backing now. “Let’s see what it is,” Sargent quotes her as saying. “It might come as a ...
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9 hours ago ago from ARRA News Service
Yesterday the House passed along party lines the $447 billion omnibus spending measure 221 to 202, with 28 Democrats joining all 174 Republicans present in opposing it. Unfortunately, Glen Beck on his shows today said the Republicans supported this bill. They did NOT. Again ALL House Republicans and 20 Democrats voted against the bill! GOP lawmakers said the measure was overinflated and rushed through with little scrutiny, while Democrats ...
Related contentConnecticut Jewish Community At Odds With Lieberman On Public Option
6 hours ago ago from The Liberal Curmudgeon
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15 hours ago ago from Mirror of Justice
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John Fund: ObamaCare Keeps Falling in the Polls
8 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
The Senate's compromise bill on health care was announced on Wednesday to much fanfare. But there's not much there for moderate Democrats to write home about. It waters down a provision creating a "public option," but it also expands (to include people over 55) Medicare, a program already expected to go bankrupt in 2017. The Senate bill is so unwieldy that the health-care system it will create will almost certainly break apart and force us ...
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13 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
The effort to ram a health care bill through Congress has turned the institution into a theater of the absurd. During the 2008 campaign, neither Barack Obama nor leading Democrats talked about a so-called "public option" or government-run insurance plan. But this year it became the centerpiece of both the Senate and House bills. Now Senate leaders are dropping the public option and embracing a controversial expansion of Medicare for those 55 ...
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WASHINGTON Senators trying to craft bipartisan climate legislation offered a revised proposal Thursday that would add incentives for building nuclear power plants and open the way for expanded oil and gas drilling off the nation's coastlines in hopes of attracting wider support. The new framework for a Senate climate bill would ease back requirements for early reductions of greenhouse gases. It calls for cuts in the range of 17 percent by ...
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