Obama to Say Democrats Will Use Reconciliation to Pass Senate HCR Fix-If Not Given Up Or Down Vote

[kpete]

Source: ABC News

President Obama to Say Democrats Will Use Reconciliation to Pass Senate Health Care Reform Fix, If Not Given Up or Down Vote

March 02, 2010 6:27 PM

White House officials tell ABC News that in his remarks tomorrow President Obama will indicate a willingness to work with Republicans on some issue to get a health care reform bill passed but will suggest that if it is necessary, Democrats will use the controversial "reconciliation" rules requiring only 51 Senate votes to pass the "fix" to the Senate bill, as opposed to the 60 votes to stop a filibuster and proceed to a vote on a bill.

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have been awaiting the president’s remarks direction on how health care reform will proceed.

In his remarks, scheduled to be at the White House, the president will paint a picture of what he will say will happen without a health care reform bill – skyrocketing premiums, everyone at the mercy of the insurance industry as recently seen with the 39% premium increases proposed by Anthem Blue Cross in California.

He will note that the “fixed” bill will include the proposal for a new "Health Insurance Rate Authority" to set guidelines for reasonable rate increases. If proposed premium increases are not justifiable per those Health Insurance Rate Authority guidelines, the Health and Human Services Secretary or state regulators could block them.

Read more: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/03/obama-democrats-will-use-reconciliation-to-pass-senate-health-care-bill.html

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[saracat]

3. And then they won't have to face the idea of a Public Option.Whoopee for them.

[saracat]

2. Whoopee. Maybe the GOP will get their HCR after all.

:sarcasm:

[msongs]

4. pass it or I'll... I'll...turn blue lol nt

[Jefferson23]

5. Controversial my ass and his IF factor would be funny if it were not such a serious

issue.

This was controversial imo, don't allow that conversation any time soon Obama.


Healthcare Summit Ends in Deadlock; Single-Payer Advocates Excluded


After nearly seven hours of televised debate, President Obama’s so-called bipartisan healthcare summit ended Thursday without any substantive agreement between Republicans and Democrats. Republican lawmakers remained staunchly opposed to using the federal government to regulate health insurance. We speak to Columbia Journalism Review contributing editor Trudy Lieberman and pediatrician Dr. Margaret Flowers of Physicians for a National Health Program.

http://www.pnhp.org/news/2010/march/healthcare-summit-ends-in-deadlock-single-payer-advocates-excluded

[SlingBlade]

6. Either Single Payer... Or Kill the fucker, Drive a Stake through its

goddamned Corporate lov'in heart and send it to back to hell where it came from.

[dflprincess]

7. I thought Obama had no sway over what Congress does

or that's what we've been told when any of us have dared to complain about his not riding Congress harder for real reform.

:shrug:

[Zenlitened]

8. Interesting, isn't it? - n/t

[and-justice-for-all]

9. The pukes DO NOT WANT ANY HCR!!!

they have no interest in what is better for the majority. They do not give a shit so why should Obama be wasting his time trying to "work" with them when he already knows the answers.

Repukes have not gave a shit about us the entire 8 nightmarish years they had total control, and all they did was all the wrong things and not on accident either. Yet, we need to ask them for their input in a subject they can not conceptualize?? fuck that and fuck them.

Obama needs to just put the smack down on those roadblocks and just do it! Medicare for all, if you so choose to join and you can keep your current provider as a supplemental, because Medicare is not going to pay for everything, it cant. So your primary would be Medicare part E and a supplemental(if you think you need it).

So until we get a proper reformation of our Health Care system, one that resembles that of the European country of your choice(Spain, France, Germany, Sweden...etc,) we will not have real reformation of the system.