Posted on 01/16/2010 9:16:14 AM PST by opentalk
The deal critics dubbed the “Cornhusker kickback” is toast.
Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., asked Friday that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., scratch Nebraska's permanent exemption from additional Medicaid costs under the Senate health care bill.
“I request . . . it instead be replaced with a provision giving all state governments the same treatment regarding the state match for the new Medicaid expansion,” Nelson wrote in a letter to Reid.
In place of the Nebraska exemption, The Associated Press reported, officials said President Barack Obama and lawmakers involved in health care negotiations decided to increase federal money for Medicaid in all 50 states. It was not clear if there would be enough additional money to cover the expansion completely.
The Medicaid expansion is a key element in the bill's overall goal of expanding health coverage to millions who lack it.
Nelson's letter appeared to remove another obstacle to reconciling the House and Senate bills. The White House has been hosting marathon bargaining sessions.
Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., the third-ranking House Democrat, said, “Something should be going to CBO very soon,” indicating that aides were drafting the decisions made around the table. The Congressional Budget Office is the official arbiter of the cost and extent of coverage that any legislation would provide.
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BOOM! The cost of this crap bill just went WAY up.
Doesn't look like it is toast to me, it looks like it just got increased by 49 more states.
So, the businessman just asked the Godfather to take back his “gift” and just forget about their deal.
Yeah, that usually works.
Exactly, wonder what budget tricks will be used on the total cost numbers.
Let’s hope Nelson is toast as well.
Someone please close the door, the horse is out. Price is going up and up and up.
Hopefully after the special election in MA the whole crap sandwich is toast.
It was so cold here in Florida last week that I actually saw a liberal walking around with his hands in his own pockets...............
So now all states send more money to DC to have it sent back to them in aid to pay for larger mandates. It just keeps getting more expensive.
............and Louisiana?
And in the bargain, Nelson gets to look like he suddenly grew a conscience.
Now, if everyone gets the same exemptions as the unions and all states get the same payoff as Louisiana...
wasn’t part of Nelson’s original soul-sale a compromise on abortions?
i thought that was originally his big sticking point, then the 50 pieces of silver just helped his conscious accept abortion-at-a-whim?
so, if he’s given back the 50 pieces of silver, what about the babies???
Simple, they'll pull another doctor compensation 0v00d0 creative accounting; take the extra out of the any HC bill and attach it to a defense bill or other bill.
Nelson didn’t grow a conscience he just can’t handle the heat of super whoredom. He gets jeers everywhere he goes, poor baby.
so, does this mean Nelson will now vote against the healthcare bill?
The damage is done. Does anybody thing this guy’s going to get reelected?
So he ended up selling his vote and didn’t get anything in return? That’s even worse than what he did originally.
“wasn’t part of Nelson’s original soul-sale a compromise on abortions?
i thought that was originally his big sticking point, then the 50 pieces of silver just helped his conscious accept abortion-at-a-whim?
so, if he’s given back the 50 pieces of silver, what about the babies???”
EXCELLENT QUESTION!
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