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To: JustPiper

Right now, Pelosi is busy “buying” votes. They may not need Slaughter.


1,166 posted on 03/18/2010 3:59:34 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops, and vote out the RINOS)
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FNC says its a ping-pong match on who switches, Carl Cameron just said still not enough to pass

Also reported on how the “STates” are taking matters into their own hands!


1,169 posted on 03/18/2010 4:07:14 PM PDT by JustPiper (Obamacare ONGOING THREAD ~http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2437390/posts?page=1026#1026~)
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DEALS ON THE HC BILL

Coburn: GOP on High Alert for Sweetheart Deals in Health Bill---Republicans have a message for Democrats considering switching to "yes" on health care reform: We'll be watching you

Obama has asked Reid to strike provisions requested by senators from at least five other states
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“Legislators need pork to make things happen,” Julian Zelizer, a Princeton University professor of history and public affairs, wrote in POLITICO Wednesday. “It is unrealistic to expect that legislative leaders won’t use one of the few tools at their disposal to get things done.”
$1.1 billion in extra Medicaid funding to Massachusetts and Vermont
John Kerry (D-Mass.) said he, too, was working with the president “to make sure Massachusetts’s past investment to expand health coverage to low-income individuals is recognized in health reform.”
$100 million hospital grant program requested by Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), who has acknowledged that the University of Connecticut would qualify for the money.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) on behalf of residents of Libby, Mont.

President Obama's pitch: Fate of presidency on the line

President Obama wants side deals out of bill

Reid to cut special deals from health bill

Sen. Ben Nelson's hardly the only lawmaker extracting sweetheart deals out of the health care reform bill.
"Votes have been bought," Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., said
-- Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., won between $100 million and $300 million in additional federal aid for her state's Medicaid population. The deal, secured before she cast her critical vote in favor of bringing the health bill to the floor, was immediately dubbed the "Louisiana Purchase," though the actual Louisiana Purchase was considerably cheaper.
-- Vermont and Massachusetts got $1.2 billion in Medicaid money -- a change that was described as a correction to the current system which exempts those two states because they have robust health care systems. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders also boasted Saturday that he requested and won an investment worth between $10 and $14 billion for community health centers.
-- Western states secured higher federal reimbursement rates for doctors and hospitals that serve Medicare patients. The provision covers the low-population "frontier" states and applies to Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming -- the latter two states are both represented by two Republicans, but ended up as beneficiaries anyway since they qualify. The legislative language defines frontier states as states where at least 50 percent of the counties have fewer than six people per square mile. Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, defended the "special deal," telling "Fox News Sunday" that those five states were getting an increase in reimbursements because they get the lowest amount in the country. "That doesn't offend me at all," he said. "It's in fact, fair."
-- Florida, New York and Pennsylvania -- where five of six senators are Democrats -- will have their seniors' Medicare Advantage benefits protected, even as the program sees massive cuts elsewhere.
-- Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., reportedly secured expanded Medicare coverage for victims of asbestos exposure in a mine in Libby, Mont.
-- Connecticut is receiving $100 million for a "health care facility" affiliated with an academic health center at a university that contains the state's only "public academic medical and dental school."
-- Nebraska's Nelson won permanent federal aid for his state's expanded Medicaid population, a benefit worth up to $100 million over 10 years. Other states get the federal aid for three years, but Nebraska's benefit is indefinite. His state also got an exemption for nonprofit insurance companies from a health insurance company tax. Many believe this was targeted at Mutual of Omaha, but senior Democratic aides would not confirm that.
Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman didn't extract any payoffs for Connecticut. Rather, he succeeded in stripping the government-run insurance plan from the Senate health bill, along with a proposed expansion of Medicare that he recently said he opposes.

The Price Is Right? Payoffs for Senators Typical in Health Care Bill

No special Nevada deal for Reid in health bill

Healthcare bill is 'Louisiana Sellout Search

Cornhusker deal in healthcare bill Search

Bill Nelson’s agreement to shield 800,000 Florida seniors from Medicare Advantage cuts (Search)

1,191 posted on 03/18/2010 10:27:20 PM PDT by JustPiper (Obamacare ONGOING THREAD ~http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2437390/posts?page=1026#1026~)
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