Posted on 09/04/2009 12:09:48 PM PDT by DRey
WASHINGTON (CNN) — CNN has learned that the White House is quietly working to draft health care legislation after allowing Congress to work on its own for months. Multiple sources close to the process tell CNN that while the plan is uncertain, they are preparing for the possibility they could deliver their own legislation to Capitol Hill sometime after the President Barack Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress Wednesday. As previously reported by CNN senior congressional correspondent Dana Bash and CNN senior White House correspondent Ed Henry, the so-called trigger option remains very much on the table. Under a 'trigger option', a new government-run health care plan would only go into effect if insurance companies fail to meet certain affordability standards with their own plans. Sources say the current thinking among administration officials is that the president will lay out a path to reform in his speech next week that the White House hopes can bridge the various differences in the competing proposals. Sources expect the president to emphasize the message: If Congress passes something now, it will serve as a foundation to pass further reform in the future.
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That is why the noise you hear continues to grow. Get ready.
The Republicans should be up in arms about this.
The president, “drafting legislation”! The Founders are rolling in their graves right now.
Seriously, he’s just drafting the bill he wants Pelosi to copy and pass. He can’t pass it, just sign it. Republicans do this, too. They write their “dream bill,” give it to Congress, and Congress rewrites it as if they wrote it. Happens all the time, with modifications.
Pandora’s Box. Bush did it first.
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=wish_upon_a_czar
I’m going to burn in hell, but the first thing that popped into my head was the Joan Baez parody, Pull the Tregroes, written by Tony Hendra and published by National Lampoon in their Radio Dinner album!
"Okay, I got the address to the joint session of congress set up for next Wednesday, now all we need to do is come up with a way to completely overhaul the entire health care system."
can’t wait to see what this bill looks like.
About a billion pages with more loopholes than any legislation before.
Probably about a million paragraphs that contradict each other.
Unless Obama writes it himself then he will produce a one page
document saying
I won, I lead, you lost, we have health care, i now decide who lives and dies.
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