Posted on 08/03/2009 10:17:03 AM PDT by Cheap_Hessian
House Minority Leader John Boehner has predicted a “very, very hot summer.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is bracing for what she calls “the fight of our lives.”
Sleepy, sweltering August, typically a month for congressional beach getaways and temperature-taking back in the district, is shaping up to be the critical month for health care reform, with major battles brewing in the Capitol and on the streets in front of members’ hometown offices.
If ever there was a time for a curtain raiser on an intermission, this is it. So here are five things to watch over the most consequential August recess in recent history:
1. Your move, Karen Ignagni
When your product is hard to sell — and health care reform has proven to be the Edsel in the White House showroom — it’s not a bad idea to single out a bad guy, and fast.
Pelosi did so last week with unusual bluntness, declaring outright war on the health insurance industry as her caucus splintered over the controversial public option. The speaker called insurers “villains” and charged them with “immoral” billing and coverage practices.
The question now: Will the insurance industry, which has tried to keep a low profile while maintaining the proverbial seat at the table, commence a big, mean anti-reform counterattack — à la 1994’s “Harry and Louise” ads?
Karen Ignagni, the powerful president and CEO of America’s Health Insurance Plans, the industry’s main trade group, has high-roaded it so far, calling out Pelosi for her “divisive” rhetoric but reaffirming that “health plans remain committed to working constructively in support of bipartisan health care reform.”
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martial law.
Isn’t Nanzi going to Italy during recess?
Acorn in action again ...in its many powers ...
i was forced on it out of my retirement health ins which i was completely happy with...now they only cover me as secondary...but they only pay what medicare covers not what they once covered...many of my health issues are not covered by medicare...so now my secondary retirement health won’t cover it any more. before i qualified for HSA for my expenses and now i can’t even do that any more...i am really getting screwed and my health care cost are now much higher...just when i needed the cover...this is all BS...and i had no viable options and didn’t know that until i came of age.
We’re mad as hell, and we are NOT going to take it any more...in the words of the 92 “HEROs” aboard United Fight 93 that crashed in PA on 9/11...”LETS ROLL”
These people are way too cowardly to actually have Town Halls and talk to the great unwashed like us.
yes — 307
no — 15519
depends on size — 311
not sure — 58
I son’t know whether it will be Italy, but you can bet she will be relaxing in some exotic expensive place at your expense. By the way, I hope the Media gives a lot of coverage to the Obama Family lounging around Martha’s Vineyard with all their millionaire neighbors. Great stuff to see when we have 10% unemployment.
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