Posted on 02/19/2010 5:34:17 AM PST by bestintxas
President Obama is working on health care legislation intended to reconcile differences between House and Senate Democrats that could be attached to a budget bill and avoid a Republican filibuster, according to a published report.
The president's proposal, which is still being written, will be posted on the Internet by Monday morning, senior administration officials and Congressional aides told the New York Times.
By piggybacking the legislation onto a budget bill, Democrats would be able to advance the bill with a simple majority of just 51 votes, averting a Republican filibuster in the Senate.
The White House signaled Thursday that an aggressive, all-Democratic strategy for overhauling the nation's health system remains a serious option, even as Obama invites Republicans to next week's televised summit to seek possible compromises.
"It will be a reconciliation bill," the Times quoted a Democratic aide as saying. "If Republicans don't come with any substantial offers, this is what we would do."
The administration's stance could set the stage for a political showdown, with Democrats struggling to enact the president's top domestic priority and Republicans trying to block what many conservatives see as government overreach.
Obama's plan, like the House and Senate bills, would expand coverage to some 30 million, require most Americans to carry insurance or face financial penalties, and block insurers from denying coverage to people with pre-existing medical conditions, the Times reported.
One Capitol Hill Democrat told the Times abortion remains "a wild card."
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Let 'em pass it and see what it does at the polls this fall.
Once it is a law, it is almost impossible to undo it. So, don’t wish for it to be passed!
Without tort reform it is useless
Strangle it in it’s crib, before it even has a chance to grow up. The conservative talk shows and blog and prime time commentators ought to be able to rip that thing to SHREADS!!
Ready the political GALLOWS!
Article 1 Section 8 does not specifically list regulating health care as a power granted to Congress. The people are not bound to comply with any unconstitutional act of Congress. People need to stress this point with their Congress critters.
Vote them all out, and then repeal the whole Obama mess, Executive Orders and all. Cut off his funding,,,,Congress still controls the money, cut it off. Defund his Czars and appointees. Put him on an allowance. Make him have to ask Congress for permission to spend more than his paycheck. There are ways to handle this.
Precisely! I really hope Republicans do not fall for this sceme. They have already written the darn thing, that tells me they don’t want a bipartisan bill...they are just looking for someone to share the blame for it. NO THANKS!
Evil never stops, never surrenders...tyrants do not leave peacefully from power.
just like the tax cut they expire.They lost Jack Murta vote. I don’t see them getting out of the house.
If they think we are angry now, just wait til they pull this stunt...................
I’m not so sure it can’t be undone.
A whiff of tar and feathers might get their minds right.
If they had any ability to actually do this, it would be law today. This is a bluff and the screams from the media seem to be working on the GOP bed wetters. It’s time to man up and call them on this. They are going to try to bend arms and get the rank and file to claim that the mean GOP Made me do this. Every member of congress worth keeping should be out there hunting down a microphone and shouting that the GOP has a plan and that the Communists won’t listen to it.
Once it’s passed reversing it would be impossible short of revolution and even then. Look at Argentina, the countless right wing coups could not dismantle the welfare state and expectations built up by the peronist left. The result becomes an irreversible process.
Tennessee has joined several other states in trying to pass a Health Care Freedom Act. NO COLAs for granny, retired Military or retired fed employees. BIG NEW fees for Tricare for Life retired over 65 Military's secondary health ins. (DOD bill already passed, delayed but goes into effect 2011)
New Dem mantra: Woof, woof eat dog food granny....ala let them eat cake.
TRI CARE FOR LIFE This from a google search:
http://economicspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/05/tricare-for-life-is-obama-trying-to.html
This option would help reduce the costs of TFL, as well as costs for Medicare, by introducing minimum out-of pocket requirements for beneficiaries. Under this option, TFL would not cover any of the first $525 of an enrollee’s cost-sharing liabilities for calendar year 2011 and would limit coverage to 50 percent of the next $4,725 in Medicare cost sharing that the beneficiary incurred. (Because all further cost sharing would be covered by TFL, enrollees could not pay more than $2,888 in cost sharing in that year.)
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9925/12-18-HealthOptions.pdf
http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/hcva09/hcva110609-1.htm
Bill Would Restrict Veterans’ Health Care Options 11/06/09
Buyer and McKeon Offer Amendments to Protect Veterans and TRICARE Beneficiaries
Congress plans to block Tricare fee increases
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w
By Rick Maze - Staff writer, Oct 7, 2009
Tricare fee increases imposed last week by the Defense Department will be repealed by a provision of the compromise 2010 defense authorization bill unveiled Wednesday by House and Senate negotiators.
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The fee increases were announced on Sept. 30 and took effect on Oct. 1, but the defense bill, HR 2647, includes a provision barring any fee increases until the start of fiscal 2011.
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Retired Army Maj. Gen. Bill Matz, president of the National Association for Uniformed Services, said the announcement of fee increases was shocking considering that the Obama administration promised earlier this year to hold off on any new fee Tricare fee increases until fiscal 2011.
“President Obama and DoD assured NAUS and the entire military family earlier this year that there would rightly be no increases in any Tricare fees” in fiscal 2010, Matz said. “We took them at their word, and I can’t believe that a co-pay increase like this was allowed to go forward,” he added.
Bambi doesn't keep his promises...so buyer beware.
The SCOTUS must have some authority to back up their oath otherwise they are but bench sitters protected by their “lack of standing” stamp.
Once again some body else writing the “new” health bill to present this week.
His crooks wrote the last one so wonder which dems are composing this masterpiece.
I want to see everyone in DC voted out of office - we have a great bunch of liars.
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