tnr.com - 23 days ago
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Officially, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will not unveil the leadership's final health care bill--the one that goes to the floor for debate--until 10:30 a.m. Unofficially, her allies have been leaking details for the last few days and, in particular, the last few hours. And so we know, already, ...
breitbart.com - 27 days ago
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SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) - A government-sponsored "public option"
for health care lives, though it may be more
attractive to skeptics if it goes by a different moniker, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday. In an appearance at a Florida senior center, ...
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Pelosi: Health care
fdlaction.firedoglake.com - 24 days ago
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Today, Nancy Pelosi unveiled the House’s health care
reform bill. The bill will cost $894 billion over
the next ten years, but will be fully paid for. It will expand coverage to an additional 36 million Americans and eventually close the ...
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Breaking: Pelosi Unveils Merged House Health Care Reform ...
tnr.com - 30 days ago
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Thursday was as crazy a day as I've
seen in Washington. The flurry of legislative activity over
the public insurance option--and the flurry of media coverage it generated--made it difficult to keep up and, at times, to separate truth from rumor or ...
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The Public Option: Where Things Stand
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Thursday's Mini-Report
Political Animal —
... : "A historic nosedive in state tax collections extended into the third quarter of the year, and only an infusion of federal stimulus money has averted widespread program cuts and worker layoffs." * Jon Cohn takes a closer look at the merits of the new House health care reform bill. (He likes it.) * If you've seen the ...
Snowe's definition of 'mainstream'
Political Animal —
... drug companies by continuing to prohibit Medicare from negotiating drug prices with them, the House bill authorizes those negotiations. The Senate bill reduces by half the payments that Medicare recipients must make for prescription drugs that fall into the "doughnut hole" (annual drug expenses are covered up to $2,700, and coverage kicks in again at $6,100, but for all purchases in between, Medicarians are on their own). The House bill would cover all prescription purchases by 2019. Jon Cohn said of the House bill, "The issue here is whether the House produced a fiscally ...
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voices.washingtonpost.com 12 days ago — Marcia Angell, a single-payer supporter and former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, doesn't believe the House bill is better than nothing. She thinks, instead, that it "throws more money into a dysfunctional and unsustainable system, ...
Pelosi’s bill has it all
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Epic new spending and taxes, pricier insurance, rationed care, dishonest accounting: The Pelosi health bill has it all. How bad is the 1990-page bill that most Congressmen probably won’t even bother read?
n a rational political world, this 1,990-page runaway train ...
Pelosi To Unveil Health Care Bill This Morning--To Crowd Of Tea Partiers?
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 24 days ago — As announced yesterday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats will unveil the health care bill they plan to bring to the floor this morning. The long awaited legislation will come in at under $900 billion. Like the Senate bill, its public option ...
How the House health-care bill saves money
voices.washingtonpost.com 24 days ago — Shailagh Murray reports :
A previous version of the House bill carried an estimated cost of $1.04 trillion over 10 years, but House negotiators were able to lower the price tag in part by expanding Medicaid coverage to a broader slice of the ...
Medicaid: The OTHER Public Option
swampland.blogs.time.com 23 days ago — As I noted earlier, the real surprise in the House health care bill wasn't the public plan--we had pretty much known for days that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi didn't have the votes to pass her preferred version, the so-called "robust" public plan, ...
Good Choice
tnr.com 22 days ago — Senator Ron Wyden has been promoting a universal health care plan for almost two years. And in the last few months, as it's become apparent that his plan wouldn't be the basis for final legislation, he's narrowed his cause to promoting one of its ...
An Interview With Ron Wyden
tnr.com 10/13/2009 — Barring a last-minute change in plans, the Senate Finance Committee will vote on a health care reform bill Tuesday. Discussion--i.e., speeches--are supposed to start at 10 a.m. The vote itself is slated for 2 pm.
The bill is expected to pass. The ...
Wyden amendment gaining support
thehill.com 9/23/2009 — An amendment to the Senate Finance Committee's healthcare bill that would permit employees to shop around for health insurance policies is slowly gaining momentum on the Hill. The idea, pitched by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) last week, would open the ...
Making Sure the States Don't Pay (Too Much) for Reform
tnr.com 29 days ago — The House is still deliberating between two versions of the public option, as Cohn laid out earlier: a stronger version that would tie public option pay rates to Medicare “plus 5” percentage points, and a weaker version that would ...
House Dems announce health bill —
First Read 24 days ago
From NBC's Mike Viqueira, Luke Russert and Tony CapraHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the outline of the House healthcare bill this morning on the West Front steps of the Capitol.
The bill is available on the House Rules Committee Website.
The ...
House Dems move forward on health bill —
First Read 24 days ago
From NBC's Mike ViqueiraHouse leaders hope to have their health-care bill on the floor late next week, perhaps Thursday, according Democratic Rep. George Miller, chairman of the education and labor committee and close confidant of Speaker Nancy ...
House Democrats announce health-care bill —
Wash Post In Congress 23 days ago
After six months of dealmaking, House Democratic leaders Thursday introduced a health-care reform bill that would expand coverage to almost all Americans and overhaul the insurance industry while asking the wealthiest taxpayers to pay much of the ...
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