Posted on 02/20/2010 10:50:22 AM PST by SmartInsight
When he jousts with Congressional Republicans over health care policy during a televised “summit†meeting on Thursday, President Obama will seek to portray his adversaries as sharing many of the broad goals of his legislation, and also strive to unify Congressional Democrats to press ahead and adopt a bill, senior White House officials and leading Democrats say.
Republican leaders have not yet committed to attending the session, and have said loudly that they doubt the sincerity of Mr. Obama's bipartisan overtures, given his refusal to discard the Democrats' legislation and start over. But senior Republican aides said that party leaders planned to participate and that a chief goal would be to portray the president as defying the will of the American people if he continues pushing for an expansive and expensive bill.
"If we took a vote now, we would not have 51 votes for that approach," said a Senate Democratic aide.
The House adopted its health care bill on Nov. 7 by 220 to 215, with one Republican, Representative Anh Cao of Louisiana in favor.
But since then, one Democratic supporter has died, another has resigned and Mr. Cao has said he would vote against the bill, meaning some Democrats who opposed the measure in November would need to switch sides to pass it.
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-- It's a TRAP for the Republicans, they better be on their toes.
-- It seems the Dems don't have the votes to pass it via reconciliation, unless they twist some arms and do more payoffs -- again.
You mean a TRAP like TARP was? It really is a Catch 22 for the Republicans. Unless they are very skillful they can be manipulated so that it seems they have no ideas and that they are just the party of "No" and if they don't go it looks the same.
Let's hope they are surprisingly skillful.
I wish the Republicans would not go.
The Republicans needs to stay as far away from this commie fiasco as they can.
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.
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
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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