spectator.org - 28 days ago
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi just unveiled the House Democrats' health
care bill, which is 1,990 pages (PDF here). You'll forgive me if I
haven't yet read all of it, but the clear takeaway is that as
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Will Abortion Derail Health Care Reform?
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org 29 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 29 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 ...
Subject: Little comparison to use -- By: Rich Lowry
corner.nationalreview.com 28 days ago — A friend e-mails:
2009 Pelosi Health care bill - 1990 pages
1994 Clinton Health care bill - 1342 pages.
So its 648 pages longer than even that bureaucratic monstrosity.
Health Care Bill Helps Trial Lawyers
liberalvaluesblog.com 27 days ago — Jazz Shaw points out that the House health care reform bill not only fails to meaningfully address tort reform but also makes it less likely that caps will be placed on claims for non-economic damages as many advocate. The bill provides for incentives for states to consider tort reform–as ...
Snowe: I'll Block The Health Care Bill If I Have To
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 30 days ago — Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) has already suggested she won't vote for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's health care bill if it comes to the floor. Now she says she could prevent it from getting there in the first place.
The AP reports , Snowe will ...
Media echo GOP's fixation on size of House health care reform bill
mediamatters.org 28 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 ...
Robust option a bust in House bill?
firstread.msnbc.msn.com 29 days ago —
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" ...
Early Word on the House Bill: They Done Good.
tnr.com 28 days ago — 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 Inevitable Debacle -- By: The Editors
article.nationalreview.com 28 days ago — T he latest health-care bill, offered by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is more of the same. Like every other Democratic bill before Congress, this “comprehensive reform” has two major features: First, it transforms insurance into a product that few rational ...
Grijalva: Progressives Will Push For Changes To House Bill
politics.theatlantic.com 24 days ago — Liberal Democrats in the House of Representatives can get behind the health care bill Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled today, but they'll press Democratic House leaders to make changes to it, according to one of the leaders of the House Progressive ...
GOP Poised To Release Its Own Health Care Bill —
Right Soup
Today House Republican Leader John Boehner said Republicans are preparing an alternative health-care bill to the various Democrat bills now making their way through Congress. The GOP has tried in vain to get proposals to the floor, so this may be an exercise in futility. Nonetheless, at least ...
13 Major Tax Hikes In The Health Care Bill —
Right Soup
We’re still slogging through The Beast that is the almost 2000-page House health care bill: the “Affordable Health Care for America Act”. Nonetheless, we wanted to highlight thirteen ways our dear leaders will be sticking it to us should it pass. Nancy Pelosi wants a vote on ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Misogyny in the Alleged Health Care Reform Bill —
Tennessee Guerilla Women
Dana Goldstein has the latest over at The Daily Beast on what is increasingly looking like a pro life health care reform bill . And just when you think the alleged health care reform bill can't get no worse, The Nation asks: Where's the Birth Control? So here are a few choice quotations on ...
Horrors In The Health Care Bill: Chapter And Verse —
Right Soup
More study of the Democrats’ health care bill has turned up expected yet disturbing details…many of which directly contradict the increasingly ludicrous Obamaspin. Barry’s been out lying again to small businesses with his “If you like your plan and if you like what ...
House GOP offers 230-page health bill —
The Political Carnival
By GottaLaff 230 pages! That is SO much better than 1990 pages! This must be a grrreat bill! Who cares what's actually in it, all that really matters is that it's shorter than the Democrats' bill. House Republicans have produced a health care bill to offer as an alternative to legislation by ...
Health Care Tuesday —
Daily Kos
A few new reports on the House health bill from Center on Budget and Policy Priorities : Overview: House Health Reform Bill Expands Coverage and Lowers Health Cost Growth, While Reducing Deficits House Health Reform Bill Would Strengthen Medicare House Health Reform Bill Would Help Ensure ...
At Least 111 New Bureaucracies Created In Health Care Bill —
Right Soup
Nancy Pelosi’s House health care bill (HR 3962) creates no less that 111 new bureaucracies , according to the House Republican Conference. Surprised? Probably not. Think these are included in the $1.2 TRILLION dollar obscenity? Probably not.
1. Retiree Reserve Trust Fund (Section ...
The True Cost of the House Health Care Bill —
Megan McArdle
The New York Times health care blog has a post about the games that politicians are playing with the cost of their health care bill--in this case, the new House bill that was initially reported as costing less than $900 billion. A more accurate assessment would have been $1.05 trillion: ...
A Bad Bill Is Worse Than No Bill At All —
Newshoggers.com
Commentary By Ron Beasley
I remain convinced that there was never any possibility of a health care reform bill that actually reformed anything. Obama just wants a bill - he really doesn't care what's in it. This is not only wrong but politically stupid, more about that later. As lawmakers ...
House GOP Health Care Bill —
Swampland
After months of criticism that they're opposing Democratic efforts on health care reform without any ideas of their own, House Republicans today unveiled a 209-page health care reform bill. It's a little more comprehensive than depeicted in this brilliant Tom Toles cartoon. But not by much. It ...
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