Reid tries to resurrect public option

Ahead of next week's White House health reform summit, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has signed on to a plan to try to resurrect the public insurance option in the Senate and signaled a willingness to use a 51-vote majority if needed to get it through.

Reid's announcement came as the White House went ahead with plans to craft its own health reform proposal ahead of the summit, a plan that could pass with 51 votes in the Senate, bypassing the threat of a Republican filibuster, according to Democratic officials.

But the moves by Reid and President Barack Obama toward using the procedural maneuver called reconciliation threatened to set off a revolt among Senate moderates, many of whom have expressed serious reservations or outright resistance to the idea.

House Republican leader John Boehner's spokesman, Michael Steel, added that "it would be baldfaced hypocrisy to continue hammering out the latest partisan backroom deal while preparing for a 'bipartisan' summit."

But Democrats argue that leaving the door open to reconciliation does not mean they are shutting it on Republican cooperation. Obama will present his plan to Republicans and ask for their ideas. And if they can come to an agreement on a proposal, reconciliation won't be necessary.

Obama's decision to lay out a proposal also satisfies a longtime request among Democratic lawmakers that the president publicly state his priorities.

"It's a smart strategy for the White House to indicate what the hell they want," said a senior Senate Democratic aide. "We've been trying to get them to do that for the last six months."

Finalize the Republican document.

Publish it on internet. As in all over, not just one website that no one can remember.

Send it to ALL media outlets. TV, radio, internet and newspapers.

Inform ALL media this was sent to ALL media outlets and is what will be put on the table at the “Summit.” As in FINAL VERSION.

Go to Summit. Place several stacks of copies in front of the cameras and Øbots.

Inform Hussein Øbama in front of the media and their own cameras “This is what was sent to ALL media outlets. Word for word.”

Leave cameras running…

When the Øbots began the BS, let then introduce their takeover plan, grab several copies, check for "public option"/abortion/etc, stop right there and make the following SHORT statement.

We came in good faith and tried to present real solutions. However, we are American Citizens with actual self respect and a moral obligation to the rest of the American Citizens that put us here. Therefore we will not continue to participate in this communist propaganda skit for the liberal media.

Stand up, grab their cameras and walk out chanting “communist – communist – communist…”

Rename, repackage, rewrite it a tad smaller, and sell another pig in a poke.

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.

Obama's War on Seniors

Friday, February 19, 2010

Obama says slight fix will extend Social Security

http://townhall.com/news/us/2010/02/19/obama_says_slight_fix_will_extend_social_security

Socialized Med Thread

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

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