No legislation will be signed as a result of the White House health care meeting. Congress is politically radioactive. ObamaCare is hated. And never has a Speaker’s low approval rating created male-trance-like-obedience to injure themselves like some hilarious Super Bowl commercial. According to the sisterhood-in-chief: Obama “signaled early on that he could be rolled when he ceded too much power to Nancy Pelosi and Harry | Read More »
Senator Rockefeller’s public option amendment offered in the U.S. Senate Finance Committee went down in flames today. The implications for Speaker Pelosi are profound. Her insistence on a public option in the House bill will force even more Democrats to vote no, and the chances that it will become law are small. Rockefeller is threatening to offer the same amendment on the Senate floor, but | Read More »
Daily Kos is reporting that Organizing for America is sending emails to Democrats in Washington State to pressure Senator Cantwell to change her pledge to vote no on health care reform unless the Senate includes a public option. Senators Cantwell and Rockefeller have both pledged to vote No if the bill does not include a public option. The Organizing for American email reads in part: | Read More »
If you have a Health Savings Account, and are wondering how the Senate Finance Committee’s bill could impact your HSA, this table of filed amendments and their description will help. Note the amendment by Senator Rockefeller (D-WV) to eliminate Health Savings Accounts.
Salon: In the end, after months and months of negotiations aimed at winning bipartisan support for a healthcare reform bill in the Senate Finance Committee, Max Baucus was all alone on Wednesday as he announced his draft proposal. He stood, looking lonely, in front of a backdrop that could have accommodated his entire so-called Gang of Six — if, that is, the talks had worked | Read More »
The words tax/taxes and fine/fines appear in the Senator Baucus bill 243 times. There are Not Enough Votes for the Baucus Bill to be Voted Out of the Finance Committee Without Senators Wyden, Rockefeller and Snowe, Chairman Baucus does not have the votes to pass the bill out of the Senate Finance Committee. This means there will be horse trading a-go-go and the results will | Read More »
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