President Barack Obama has the votes in the House of Representatives to force his flagship reform of US healthcare through without Republican support, House speaker Nancy Pelosi has said. (AFP/Saul Loeb)
Posted on 03/02/2010 10:36:12 AM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama said Tuesday he was open to four new Republican proposals on health care legislation, in a gesture of bipartisanship meant to jump-start his stalled overhaul drive.
Obama detailed the ideas, all of which were raised at a bipartisan health care summit last week, in a letter to congressional leaders. He also called for eliminating a special deal for Medicare Advantage beneficiaries in Florida and other states that drew criticism at the summit from Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
The proposals Obama mentioned are: sending investigators disguised as patients to uncover fraud and waste; expanding medical malpractice reform pilot programs; increasing payments to Medicaid providers and expanding the use of health savings accounts.
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sending investigators disguised as patients to uncover fraud and waste
expanding medical malpractice reform pilot programs
increasing payments to Medicaid providers
expanding the use of health savings accounts
Sounds like a bait and switch plan to me.....
As predicted, the “Summit” was a setup. All these are token gestures, notice the use of “pilot” for the tort reform. There is no room for comprise; either you believe in a consumer driven system or a government run system.
We are so screwed.
Does the FBI really need advice from Congress on how to do its job?
sending investigators disguised as patients to uncover fraud and waste
President Barack Obama has the votes in the House of Representatives to force his flagship reform of US healthcare through without Republican support, House speaker Nancy Pelosi has said. (AFP/Saul Loeb)
Why not offer a real proposal - remove the abortion part.
Not included: allowing purchase of insurance across state lines or tort reform. Also not included: any mention of scaling back or removing any part of the current proposals.
Any GOP’er who bites on this bait is a self-destructive idiot.
Anything to get it passed.
It still stinks.
1. Throw
2. Plan
3. In
4. Trash
:-]
Does ANYONE else see a Clintonian move to the center..keep is A$$ in orafice...??
Add some of your good hamburger to our rotten hamburger and see if you will eat it.
reuters
LOL which will be removed in reconciliation.
And reading this, thousands of trial lawyers laughed out loud and made plans for a bigger yacht.
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Even a dog won’t eat it.
How about this idea? Scrap the whole thing; people don’t want health care reform.
pilot programs are not good enough, and you still have the government takeover of healthcare.
What about competition across state lines?
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