Not on your life,
it is alive and moving forward. The President remains committed to health care reform and is not about to let it get away from him. In addition, do not think he is going to settle for minor changes. Remember, negotiations between the House, Senate and White House reached a point to send a compromise bill to CBO for scoring. There is still a push for a bigger bill, not incremental change. In fact, once again there is growing interest among some House and Senate Democrats to push for a public option. There is no time for an array of small pieces of legislation; the mentality now is getting it done before Easter recess.
Democrats believe they will be worse off if they do nothing, so there is a new Democratic surge on health care reform. There is widespread awareness that there may be fewer Democrats in Congress next year (perhaps even a minority), so 2010 may be best last chance for Democrats to claim victory on health care reform.
Democrats are using insurance company proposed 2010 premium increases in the individual market as an rallying cry to push reform, regardless of the facts; it remains popular to attack health insurance companies. Let us hope that insurance companies are not so dumb as to file these rate increases without unquestionable necessity…let’s hope.
Summit on February 25th at 10:00 am
The White House Summit will include members from House and Senate, staffers, White House, CBO, Senate tax committee, etc. The President is to monitor the discussion within several goals (1) lower costs for all, (2) correct insurance company “abuses”, (3) expand health insurance coverage, (4) make health care more affordable, and (5) help with fiscal sustainability. In addition, the President will have text of his health insurance reform package posted on the Web before the meeting. According to the Secretary of HHS, this outline will include the best of the House and Senate proposals.
So there you go, in a week it starts all over, the solution to health care problems (whatever they may be) under which everyone wins and nobody loses.
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The slime will attach to another bill. What part of NO from the American people don’t they understand. We don’t want to spend any more money insuring either those who don’t want it or those who are illegal…
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I question this statement: “So there you go, in a week it starts all over, the solution to health care problems (whatever they may be) under which everyone wins and nobody loses.”
I disagree, I see it as a few people will win some form of health care at the expense of the majority of us who will see a reduction in the benefits we worked hard to obtain and with that change we can expect to see an increase in health care costs.
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