Posted on 09/20/2009 4:27:08 PM PDT by Libloather
Pelosi critical of Baucus bill
By GLENN THRUSH | 9/17/09 5:04 AM EDT
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s reaction to the release of the Max Baucus health care reform bill was chilly at best — with a not-so-subtle swipe at the Senate Finance Committee’s stripping away the public option preserved in current House proposals.
“As this proposal evolves, we hope to see modifications that result in the Senate bill better reflecting the work of the House to make health care more affordable for all Americans and promote competition that is key to keeping costs lower,” Pelosi said in a statement.
“I believe the public option is the best way to achieve that goal.”
Pelosi has been publicly consistent in her support for the public option despite suggestions by other Democrats in the House — led by Majority Leader Steny Hoyer — that the final House-Senate compromise could be passed without the option.
The internal Democratic House-Senate debate over the public option has been downplayed over the past week, largely overshadowed by the back and forth over Rep. Joe Wilson’s outburst. But the Baucus bill brings into clearer focus the huge distance yet to be bridged among Dems in both chambers.
On one hand, Pelosi sought to downplay those divisions, saying, “We are pleased that Sen. Baucus’s plan mirrors some key provisions in the House proposal, including sweeping insurance reforms and consumer protections.”
But she also sought to trumpet what she believes are the advantages of her approach: “The House bill clearly does more to make coverage affordable for more Americans and provides more competition to drive insurance companies to charge lower premiums and improve coverage.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Hussein has mentioned a 'nongovernmental' entity gathering the massive amount of cash sent in, but who really knows. Kinda sounds like an insurance company to me.
Baucus submits a Deathcare™ bill that ONLY costs $850 BILLION 'deficit neutral' dollars. It's pure BS which will balloon to $12 TRILLION dollars.
The Waxman/Pelosi fantasy has a price tag of around $634 billion 'deficit neutral' dollars which will balloon to $12 TRILLION dollars.
So - the so-called 'public option' will cost real American taxpayer individuals - what - $1200.00 a month? For rationed gubmint care?
Just wondering. (Oh, and are all Congress members exempt under the Baucus Deathcare™ plan - just like the Waxman/Pelosi Deathcare™ plan?)
FR Question: Why are people so hung up on elements of the bill when the whole bill on it’s face is unconstitutional because Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution does not expressly list regulating health care as a power granted to Congress? Why are people not driving this point home with their politicians?
I would be more tha happy to pay Nancy Pelosi’s bill.
..that's one of those pesky little questions no one is suppose to ask...the details will be "worked out" later AFTER the Bill is signed and stuffed down Americans throats
The Chairman says that about 30 million or 50 million, depending on who he's lying to, are uninsured. At 50 million the cost is 400 billion per year for a ten year total of 4 trillion before inflation and even more government largesse.
I know this is the old math but it still obtains. The Chairman, the left, the right and the media in general know this, they just lie about it.
Excuse me? What sort of crack is Pelosi smoking?
Bringing in the Federal government--a de jure, de facto monopoly in its own right--into the business of health insurance is supposed to create competition?
Private anything is unable to compete with the Federal government, with regard to the provision of services, for three fundamental reasons: one, the Federal government prints money, by way of the Federal Reserve System; two, the Federal government makes the law; and three, the Federal government has a monopoly on the force of armed power to enforce said law.
By getting the Federal government involved, Pelosi is not creating competition; she is destroying--nay, steamrolling--the competition. Furthermore, neither the agency (or agencies) that would be charged with administering the so-called "public option" nor their employees will have any incentive whatsoever to control costs, well, except through rationing of services provided (i.e., health care services), since after all, it's the Federal government. The Federal government, with its seemingly infinite supply of resources, backed by a claim on the lives, the labor, and the property of its citizens, enforced via taxation and confiscation, has no incentive whatsoever to provide quality services at a minimum cost...or services of any reasonable quality to begin with.
Clearly, Pelosi is either full of sh*t, believes her own lies, is drunk with power, or is all of the above.
Does Nancy even KNOW about this? And would it even matter?
The good stuff, I assume.
Obamacare is sinking faster than Michael Moore in a vat of Jello.
That image will last for days. I can't thank you enough.
You must currently enjoy freedom and liberty. Fagetaboutit.
“Obamacare is sinking faster than Michael Moore in a vat of Jello.”
We gotta get that photoshopped.
There's MORE? I'm trying to down some sort of dinner.
The good news is---Moore had a turkey baster in his back pocket (doesn't everybody?).
So when Moore reaches the bottom of the Jello vat, he's going to suck his way back to the top.
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