Posted on 06/17/2009 5:25:39 PM PDT by MontaniSemperLiberi
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee began work on a bill encompassing President Barack Obama's top legislative priority. It marked the first time since President Bill Clinton's ill-starred attempt in the early 1990s that Congress was tackling such a broad overhaul.
But the more important Senate Finance Committee announced it would delay action, as senators sought to retool their proposals to slash the cost by more than one-third, from an intial $1.6 trillion over 10 years, to less than $1 trillion. Of the five major panels working on health care, Finance has the best odds of coming up with a bipartisan proposal that could overcome gathering opposition.
Lobbyists representing every nook and cranny of the economy were on high alert - even if they were on their best behavior.
Majority Democrats running the Finance Committee have told lobbyists that their views will be taken into account as long as their groups don't mount public campaigns against the legislation, numerous lobbyists say. So far, health industry groups have not launched aggressive attacks against Democrats' emerging plans.
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The American Medical Association backed off from a confrontation with the Obama administration over a government-run plan to compete with private insurance, declining to take a firm position at a Chicago meeting Wednesday.
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.myway.com ...
Looks like the Democrats are trashing the health care proposal themselves. Must have something to do with competing interests. Many Democrat senators have a taste for graft and corruption and this medical insurance thing is going to dry up the funds for that.
As I understand it, the taxes to support this, especially in the face of a double dip recession and declining US credit is shaking up to 100 Blue Dogs into neutrality.
They want nothing to do with a Hillary Style self-implosion. Even Jim Caravile said a couple of years ago that HC is a loser issue to actually make policy on; too many interests at the table.
Anyone with half a brain also understands that the “public option” is simply a more gradual approach to goverment monopoly. Kennedy, Obama, Pelosi and nearly the entire leadership have said so, on tape, in the recent past.
The GOP can’t do a thing to stop the madness so their best move is to be the party of no and let the Rats destroy themselves. The GOP doesn’t need to offer their own version of Nationalized Health Care.
Why not run ads against the destroying of our health system? Stand up to obama! I was hoping the the ads that were running against Hillary would start running again. Let the public know what is coming if this thing passes!
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