Anti-abortion Democrats working on a vote deal with Senate on bill

thehill.com ^ | March 19, 2010 | Jared Allen and Jeffrey Young

[Free ThinkerNY]

At least six anti-abortion Democrats are open to supporting the healthcare bill if they can get a guarantee from the Senate that it will move separate legislation containing the House abortion language, one of those Democratic holdouts said Friday.

Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.), one of Rep. Bart Stupak’s (D-Mich.) gang of staunch opponents of the Senate abortion language, said they are in discussions with senators and House leaders to secure such a commitment.

“There could be some kind of commitment from the other body to act on this later … to ensure that the Senate language does not remain law,” he said.

Rahall said that securing such an agreement could open up six to 10 members, including himself, to voting for the Senate bill and reconciliation language.

He told the Charleston Daily Mail he will vote no unless abortion language is changed.

Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), another member who remains a no because of the Senate abortion language, on Thursday hinted that discussions along the lines Rahall mentioned were in the works.

[BreitbartSentMe]

They can’t possibly think that the senate will pass that, do they?????

[Perdogg]

If they change the bill, it goes back to the Senate.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Anti-abortion Democrats working on a vote deal with Senate on bill

These guys, of all people, should know you can't trust the devil, but you definitely can't trust politicians.

[C19fan]

Fools. These clowns are like Charlie Brown and the Senate is Lucy holding the football.

[Lmo56]

Senator Lovitz: "Change in the abortion provisions ??? NO PROBLEM ... I talked it over with my wife ... ummm ... Morgan Fairchild - and she agrees ... YEAH - THATS the ticket !!!"

[Netizen]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2474694/posts

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

There are no planned changes to the Senate Bill. They have two bills they are planning on. The first is an in toto passing of the Senate bill which immediately gets signed into law. The second bill is the “cover” with proposed changes voted on by the House. There is NO obligation on the Senate to even consider the House bill. As Krauthammer says, you have a better chance believing in Peter Pan than in believing that the Senate will make ANY changes once their bill becomes “law”.

[JPG]

These ‘anti-abortion’ RATS are real slippery characters. Instead of standing firm against public funding of killing babies they'll gladly try to scurry into some gray area. They make me want to barf.

[GailA]

If they think that botox, and dingy are going to eliminate the GENOCIDE of the Unborn from this they are total nuts.

It’s not just Granny and Gramps that is getting whacked so illegals can have free health care.

MILITARY & Retired MILITARY

Veterans’ G.I. Bill benefits MIA
http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_14516354#axzz0hJ33foKo

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

Pushing Veterans Toward the Grave
http://www.christianpost.com/blogs/opinion/2009/08/pushing-veterans-toward-the-grave-31/
Outrage: Filipino Vets Waiting for the Big Payout
http://bulletin.aarp.org/yourmoney/personalfinance/articles/outrage_filipino_vets_waiting_for_the_big_payout.html
“These veterans have been waiting for these benefits for a very long time—more than 60 years. Now that the money is there, there may not be enough,” Arcebal says.
Bill Would Restrict Veterans’ Health Care Options
http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/hcva09/hcva110609-1.htm
Congress plans to block Tricare fee increases
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w
http://www.navytimes.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.
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.

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.