huffingtonpost.com - 29 days ago
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There was much celebration on Capitol Hill today with the announcement of the new House health care bill . For myself, as a three time breast cancer survivor, there was tremendous sadness and disappointment in the Speaker.
Nancy Pelosi made a choice with regard to the lifesaving biologic ...
Dean Of House To Nervous Dems: If We Fail On Health Care, We Lose
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 10/23/2009 — In a tense, closed door caucus meeting this morning, during which House Democrats were made to go on the record on the question of whether they'd vote for a health care bill with a robust public option, some of the caucus' most nervous members got a ...
Pelosi's cost-shfiting will wreck health care
betsyspage.blogspot.com 10/23/2009 — The House Democrats are all excited about their so-called "robust public option." Nancy Pelosi thinks that they have found a magic bullet to produce a health care bill that will peg government payouts to doctors and hospitals based on the Medicare ...
Latest Health Care Bill Will Cost Americans $1 Trillion
gatewaypundit.firstthings.com 10/25/2009 — The dem’s health care bill will cost Americans over $1 trillion.
And, that’s before Speaker Pelosi starts the vote buying.
My Way News reported:
Health care legislation taking shape in the House carries a price tag of at least $1 ...
Can the House Pass Any Health Care Bill At All?
openleft.com 10/28/2009 — It is time to start seriously asking whether the House of Representatives can pass any health care bill whatsoever.
First, while the final meeting deciding the fate of the robust public option is taking place as I type this, the likely outcome is ...
Robust option a bust in House bill?
firstread.msnbc.msn.com 10/28/2009 —
From NBC's Mike Viqueira It appears that Speaker Nancy Pelosi and top House Democrats will hold an event tomorrow morning to announce the outline of the House health-care bill that they will move to the floor.
And it looks like the "robust" ...
Will Abortion Derail Health Care Reform?
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org 30 days ago — Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has scheduled a press conference tomorrow morning at 10am to release the final House health care bill with hopes of voting on the legislation sometime next week. According to early reports, the bill will cost approximately ...
Pelosi To Unveil Health Care Bill This Morning--To Crowd Of Tea Partiers?
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 30 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 30 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 ...
Health Care Budgeting 101: Fiscal Scolds Earn an “F-”
seminal.firedoglake.com 30 days ago — (photo by amboo who?)
From the WaPo’s summary of the House health reform bill:
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 ...
Democrats Optimistic, Progressives Coming To Terms, On Health Care Bill
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 30 days ago — Before House Democrats unveiled their health care bill, the caucus huddled in the basement of the Capitol to get fired up. As the meeting broke, Majority Whip James Clyburn (R-SC) darted down the hall and a reporter asked him how many votes he had. ...
CBO Says House Health Care Bill Is Deficit Reducer In Near And Long Term
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 30 days ago — The CBO has weighed in with a preliminary cost estimate of the House's health care bill--and there are almost certainly some very happy people in House leadership.
At $894 billion, the bill's 10 year cost comes in a hair under President Obama's ...
The House Health Bill: Here come the taxes
themoderatevoice.com 29 days ago — Just to be clear, I have not read the entire House health care bill which dropped on our heads like a roughly 2,000 page albatross yesterday. (I’ve gotten through the first hundred or so, and my hat is off to anyone who reads fast enough to have finished the whole thing already.) However, ...
Media echo GOP's fixation on size of House health care reform bill
mediamatters.org 29 days ago — Following the release of the House Democrats' health care reform bill, the leaders of the House Republican caucus repeatedly stressed the length and size of the bill during an October 29 press conference. Numerous media figures and outlets have ...
Conrad: House Health Care Bill Much Improved —
TPM Election Central
Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) let it be known in numerous ways that early versions of the House health care bill would not meet his budgetary muster. Now, with CBO saying the House bill is a long term deficit reducer, Conrad has some very kind words for it.
"Much improved," Conrad told me. "It's ...
Get Your House Health Bill Here —
WSJ.com: Washington Wire
Peter Landers reports on health policy.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made a point this morning about openness, saying of her health bill, We are putting it online for all Americans to see. Indeed, it is online, http://docs.house.gov/rules/health/111_ahcaa.pdf here.
Still, we wonder how ...
Pelosicare Unveiled, Sortof. —
Right Soup
Nancy Pelosi grandly presented her House of Representatives’ health care bill this morning, and- as expected, it’s full of booby traps for all. Unfortunately, we can’t read the 2000 page behemoth yet, because a fight to give us even 72 hours to do so is still ongoing. (So much ...
House bill released —
pandagon.net - we are the public option
by Amanda Marcotte
To no one’s great surprise, the House bill for health care reform includes a public option . When Nancy Pelosi says something is non-negotiable, you’d better believe her. In general, the bill is exactly what most of us thought it would be. The ...
House Health Bill —
Matthew Yglesias
Read all about it .
One of the key differences between the early draft of the House health bill and the Senate Finance draft was the different long-term implications of the financing mechanism. The House bill is financed by taxes on rich people. Since health spending is increasing faster ...
Pelosi Introduces Health Care Bill —
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) unveiled a health-care reform bill "that includes a government insurance option and a historic expansion of Medicaid, although sticking points in the legislation involving abortion and immigration remain unresolved," the Washington Post reports.
"The bill ...
Early word on the HOuse health-care bill —
Ezra Klein
The House health-care reform bill is out, or at least the text (pdf) of it is. I don't want to say too much that's definitive until I see the CBO score, but all early reports are that it covers more people with more comprehensive insurance than the Senate bill does, and at comparable cost. The ...
House Health Care Bill Revealed —
Delaware Liberal
Nancy Pelosi is holding a press conference to announce the House health care reform bill. The bill is called “The Affordable Health Care For America Act, ” H.R. 3962. Some key provisions:
It has the less robust version of the public option, which means the reimbursement rates are ...
House Health Bill —
Swampland
is here, all 1,990 pages of it. I'm still trying to figure it out. But from the early details I've seen, it strikes me that the real news here is not the public option, but rather, the decision to expand Medicaid eligibility all the way up to 150% of poverty. That's a significant increase from ...
The House Health Care Bill: Read It —
Huffington Post
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) officially unveiled the House health care reform bill that is headed to the House floor. The ceremony, held on the West steps of the Capitol, marks the greatest progress toward the Democratic Party's top domestic priority goal in more than half a century.
The ...
Pelosi Unveils House Health Care Bill —
Yall Politics
Pelosi Unveils House Health Care Bill
The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi of California, on Thursday unveiled a $894 billion health care package that would provide insurance to up to 36 million people by broadly expanding Medicaid, the state-federal insurance program for the poor, and by ...
Report: House Health Care Bill Unveiled Tomorrow —
TPM Election Central
Rumors have been swirling all day, and now ABC is reporting that House leaders will unveil their health care bill at a morning press conference tomorrow.
Of the specifics that were still up in the air, the bill reportedly: will not include a robust public option, as recent signs have been ...
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