Posted on 03/03/2010 9:58:32 AM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama on Wednesday was to ring the final round bell of the year-long bout over his historic health care plan, pushing Congress for quick action over stiff Republican objections.
Obama was set to deliver his televised exhortation at 1:45 pm (1845 GMT) from the White House's ornate East Room after vainly extending Republicans an olive branch, offering to include four of their ideas in the legislation.
The president was to lay out his plans for "moving forward into the final stage" of congressional action on what would be the most sweeping overhaul of its kind in four decades, a White House official said late Tuesday.
Obama, whose plan aims to extend health care coverage to tens of millions of Americans who currently lack it, "will urge Congress to move swiftly toward votes on this legislation," said the official, who requested anonymity.
The blueprint still faces an uphill road to passage, with Republicans united in opposition, and Democrats struggling to marshal their majorities in both chambers with a tentative self-imposed timetable measured in weeks.
The Senate and House of Representatives passed rival versions of the overhaul in 2009, and were on the road to melding them into a compromise bill when Democrats lost their 60-vote Senate super-majority in a shock January election that boosted Republicans to 41 seats in the 100-member Senate.
With Republicans suddenly empowered to stall the legislation indefinitely, the president's allies were expected to rely on an infrequently parliamentary tactic called "reconciliation" that requires a simple majority.
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The approach has pitfalls: The method is reserved for measures that directly impact government revenues and outlays, and could open the door to a wave of Republican amendments aimed at burying the bill.
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He is all ego.
Must be All the Booze making him fuzzy headed.
We gots us a Boris Yeltsin.
He will have a gaggle of Doctors and Nurse as props! What a jerk he is.
So now he is Rocky?
Nurse Pelosi, the 'change' agent, Please.
Who the hell knows? The RNC is worthless in communicating Republican positions on issues.
This jack-ass should have been running ads explaining/communicating the conservative position on healthcare.
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I will NOT play, I will NOT pay.
F’em!
Passing ObamaCare will create jobs and help bring the national debt down.....I either need to start smoking crack or Jack Squat Barry needs to stop smoking White House brand crack.
BLOWHARD OBOZO sure is workin it, isn’t he?
Denninger I think is right this is about tax revenue and there never will be any health care.
OBAMANOMICS—TRICKLE DOWN DESTRUCTION of the economy
SET THEIR LOCAL AND DC LINES ON FIRE!
PLEASE ASK THEM TO REPEAL THE BIG NEW FEES in TRICARE for Life, the retired Military over 65 secondary health ins. which they passed in a DOD bill. They promised our Military these benefits, and our Military have earned them.
Bambi doesn’t keep his promises...so buyer beware!
Sen Scott Brown’s number is 202-224-4543
Capitol Hill switchboard is 202-224-3121
Lots of local demwit phone numbers on this thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2408217/posts
Rename, repackage, rewrite it a tad smaller, and sell another pig in a poke. NO COLAs for granny, retired Military or retired fed employees. BIG NEW fees for Tricare for Life retired over 65 Military’s secondary health ins.
(DOD bill already passed, delayed but goes into effect 2011 NEEDS TO BE REPEALED!
OBAMA’s WAR ON SENIORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2433867/posts/
New Dem mantra: Woof, woof eat dog food granny....ala let them eat cake. http://www.lifenews.com/bio3058.html
Friday, February 19, 2010
Obama says slight fix will extend Social Security
http://townhall.com/news/us/2010/02/19/obama_says_slight_fix_will_extend_social_security
Health Care Rationing for Seniors Another Problem in New Obama Plan http://www.lifenews.com/bio3058.html
Medicare tax may apply to investment income (ObamaCare tax hike)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2460988/posts
SOCIALIZED MED THREAD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2462963/posts
TRI CARE FOR LIFE This from a google search:
http://economicspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/05/tricare-for-life-is-obama-trying-to.html
This option would help reduce the costs of TFL, as well as costs for Medicare, by introducing minimum out-of pocket requirements for beneficiaries. Under this option, TFL would not cover any of the first $525 of an enrollee’s cost-sharing liabilities for calendar year 2011 and would limit coverage to 50 percent of the next $4,725 in Medicare cost sharing that the beneficiary incurred. (Because all further cost sharing would be covered by TFL, enrollees could not pay more than $2,888 in cost sharing in that year.) http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9925/12-18-HealthOptions.pdf
http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/hcva09/hcva110609-1.htm
Bill Would Restrict Veterans’ Health Care Options 11/06/09
Buyer and McKeon Offer Amendments to Protect Veterans and TRICARE Beneficiaries
Congress plans to block Tricare fee increases
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w/
By Rick Maze - Staff writer, Oct 7, 2009
Tricare fee increases imposed last week by the Defense Department will be repealed by a provision of the compromise 2010 defense authorization bill unveiled Wednesday by House and Senate negotiators.
Snip The fee increases were announced on Sept. 30 and took effect on Oct. 1, but the defense bill, HR 2647, includes a provision barring any fee increases until the start of fiscal 2011.
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Retired Army Maj. Gen. Bill Matz, president of the National Association for Uniformed Services, said the announcement of fee increases was shocking considering that the Obama administration promised earlier this year to hold off on any new fee Tricare fee increases until fiscal 2011.
“President Obama and DoD assured NAUS and the entire military family earlier this year that there would rightly be no increases in any Tricare fees” in fiscal 2010, Matz said. “We took them at their word, and I can’t believe that a co-pay increase like this was allowed to go forward,” he added.
Been there, done that.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton smiles during a meeting at
the National Congress in Brasilia. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
warned the world Wednesday not to "push Iran into a corner" as Brazil
resisted visiting Clinton's drive for sanctions.
(AFP/Adriano Machado)
US President Barack Obama waves to healthcare professionals after speaking about his final strategy for moving forward with health insurance reform in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. Obama on Wednesday pressed Congress to "finish its work" on far-reaching legislation to remake US health care, his top domestic goal, after a bitter year-long political fight. (AFP/Saul Loeb)
Resist! Resist! Resist! In your heart you know what to do.
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