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House Dems Unveil Giant Health Care Reform Bill
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines —
... you to follow in the footsteps of those who gave our country Social Security and then Medicare — and now universal, quality, affordable health care for all Americans,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi told a crowd of several hundred people.
The 83-year-old dean of the House, Representative John D. Dingell of Michigan, stole the show with a combative speech in which he assailed insurance companies and Republicans, who have been warning that the legislation would slash Medicare.
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Podcast: Honoring the Fallen and Cash Payments from the C.I.A
The Caucus —
... to witness the transfer of military remains returning from Afghanistan. But White House officials insist he will keep any emotions the trip might have stirred out of his decisions about how to proceed. Meanwhile, as the president vows to keep the cost of his proposed health care legislation under $900 billion over the next ten years, Democratic Congressional leaders have an idea : Two bills! Both the House and Senate are now keeping their main health care bills under $900 billion by breaking into a second bill –a $250 billion fix– to protect doctors from steep cuts in their ...
House Health Reform Bill Deserves to Be Approved
RealClearPolitics - Homepage —
The Senate should pay attention to the health care reform bill unveiled on Thursday by House Democratic leaders. The bill would greatly expand coverage of the uninsured while reducing budget deficits over the next decade and probably beyond. It includes a public option that is weaker than we would like, but it still deserves to be approved by the House. The coverage expansions would carry a net cost to the federal government of $894 billion over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Yet ...
Moving Days: Can delicate coalition survive thousand cuts?
The Note —
... Plus: "None of the cost estimates of the bill included provisions to increase Medicare payments to doctors. Those provisions, which would cost more than $200 billion over 10 years, were put into a separate bill, also introduced Thursday." ...
The Early Word: Health in the House
The Caucus —
Another day, another development in the health care debate. At a Thursday rally at the Capitol, House Democrats gave the public their first glimpse of the health care legislation (all 1,990 pages of it) they plan to bring to the floor. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the legislation would provide coverage to 36 million at a cost of $1.05 trillion over a decade. Republicans leapt on that figure, citing it as proof the legislation was too expensive. For their part, as The Times’s Robert Pear and David Herszenhorn reported, Democrats publicized a ...
CBO Health-Care Score Assumes Congress Sticks to Its Promises, Which Probably Won't Happen, Says CBO
Hit & Run —
... The House released its
health-care reform bill yesterday morning, and by afternoon,
the Congressional Budget Office had released ...
The biggest Zombie Lie of 'em all
Political Animal —
THE BIGGEST ZOMBIE LIE OF 'EM ALL.... Looking back over the last six months of debate over health care reform, the right-wing allegations of "death panels" have practically become notorious. No other lie was as insulting or as ridiculous, and those who repeated it deserved to be labeled disreputable hacks. To their credit, House leaders decided to embrace the common-sense idea that has long generated bipartisan support. The NYT reported yesterday , "Undaunted by the August uproar over 'death panels,' House Democrats would authorize Medicare to pay doctors for providing advice ...
But I have a right!
SCSUScholars —
... Health insurance is a basic human right ... which is why Congress proposes to leave 18 million people still uninsured in the year 2019 (source). I’m getting more and more confused by our politicians. A lot of them have offered beautiful speeches about how it is both a tragedy and a violation of basic human rights for a person to live in the U.S. without health insurance. At present, millions of Americans are not customers of health insurance companies. After the proposed $1 trillion health care reform has had six years to work, we’ll be left with… millions of Americans who have ...
The $1.5 Trillion Fraud -- By: Michael F. Cannon
Articles on National Review Online —
... Never mind the everyday budget gimmicks House Democrats have used, such as removing $250 billion of deficit spending to be voted on separately. Or claiming their bill would cost just $894 billion -- around ...
