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ObamaCare On Life Support?
22 hours ago ago from The TOXIC Mud Pit
So the so-called public option was dropped from the Senate version of ObamaCare, in favor of a Medicare buy-in system (which, incidentally, is probably even a closer step toward single-payer than the public option and, believe it or not, even more of a trainwreck ). However, the Medicare provision appears to have been dropped, as well, thanks in large measure to Joe Lieberman : Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) just walked walked into the Democrats ...
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11 hours ago ago from Freedom's Lighthouse
Here is audio of Rush Limbaugh today reacting to an email he received from the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee. The email says their efforts to defeat the Health Care Bill are working, and they cited Joe Lieberman's opposition as evidence. Limbaugh points out they did not appear to know that Lieberman has announced he will vote for the Senate Health Care Bill today. Limbaugh said he was "stunned" at the seeming lacking of ...
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1 day ago ago from The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely
Just off the wires: Senate Democrats emerged from a special caucus meeting Monday night determined to pass a health-care bill by Christmas -- but without the Medicare buy-in plan that liberals had sought as an alternative to a government insurance option. Reform? My ass. Lieberman is out for revenge: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy
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23 hours ago ago from Sign Big
A Senate Democrat on Monday called on President Obama to veto the $1.1 trillion catchall spending bill Congress sent the White House over the weekend, saying the president must take the credit card away from the politicians who just want to spend, spend, spend. Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana, who voted against the bill on three separate occasions over the past few days, said Mr. Obama didn't create the spending crisis, but challenged the ...
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12 hours ago ago from Angry Bear
UPDATE : Greg Sargent (via Glenn Greenwald's Twitter feed) notes that I am hardly alone in my concluding pargraph . The last even semi-useful part of health care "reform" (and that was of dubious value) is dead : The idea of letting people ages 55 to 64 buy into Medicare, announced just last week, had threatened to explode the Democrats' hopes of getting a bill through the Senate when Sen. Joseph Lieberman came out against it. Yes, ...
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Senate Democrats might drop Medicare buy-in
23 hours ago ago from Media General - TBO.com
WASHINGTON - The end game at hand, Senate Democrats appeared ready to jettison a proposed Medicare expansion from sweeping health care legislation today in a bid to remove the largest remaining obstacle in the way of Christmas-week passage of the measure. "Democrats aren't going to let the American people down. We all stand shoulder-to-shoulder," Majority Leader Harry Reid said after a closed-door meeting called to discuss last-minute ...
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6 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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