Posted on 02/19/2010 9:13:34 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
The Health Care Nuclear Option, also known as reconciliation, is being considered by liberal politicians to insure that Obamacare makes it to the President’s desk by Easter. According to The New York Times, the plan is to have the President submit reconciliation legislation to be posted on the internet this weekend. The legislation will be crafted in a manner so that it can be passed using special reconciliation procedures created solely to enact laws to reduce the deficit as part of the annual budget. The next step is for the President to conduct his half day bipartisan summit at the Blair House on February 25th. With that faux-bipartisan stunt over with, the President will be free to pass legislation in a partisan manner that tosses aside the regular rules of business in the Senate.
Here is how the NYT writes it up:
President Obama will put forward comprehensive health care legislation intended to bridge differences between Senate and House Democrats ahead of a summit meeting with Republicans next week, senior administration officials and Congressional aides said Thursday.
The legislation is being crafted in a way to allow for partisans in the House and Senate to pass the legislation without any support from Republicans and it a way that avoids a 60 vote threshold of a filibuster in the Senate.
Democratic officials said the president’s proposal was being written so that it could be attached to a budget bill as a way of averting a Republican filibuster in the Senate. The procedure, known as budget reconciliation, would let Democrats advance the bill with a simple majority rather than a 60-vote supermajority.
Yet again, the Obama Administration has tossed aside transparency and has crafted this legislation behind closed doors.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.heritage.org ...
Time to build the gallows...retire or hang.
By August recess, by labor day, by Thanksgiving, by Christmas, by New Years, by SOTU, and now by Easter. LOL!
The Obama-For-America/ACORN/SEIU “Million Man March For Healthcare!” is scheduled for Feb. 24.
The Medicare Armageddon begins March 1.
Anybody but me see a connection here???
They just don`t care what anyone thinks, ‘you`re all gonna get a Totalitarian State whether you want it or not so shut up and sit down pathetic peons’.
They see a firestorm if they try this.
I would actually welcome it
Bring it on DEMS....bring it on.
Ditto.
Republicans can exit by the back door, too. Or have separate entrances.
http://www.retrosnapshots.com/product_info.php?products_id=1523
I think the French had a better idea.
Pence on Reconciliation [Robert Costa]
Upon hearing reports that Democrats may be ready to use reconciliation to pass health care, Rep. Mike Pence (R., Ind.) told National Review Online that such a ploy from the White House won’t work. “If they try that, the American people will reject it.” Pence adds that he hasn’t heard any specifics about reconciliation from House colleagues — yet.
02/19 12:01 PMShare
I think we could solve that problem if we put a few heads together ;->
I was kind of thinking of the video where the guy on the bus with the white beard beats the tar out of that thug.
Tennessee has joined several other states in trying to pass a Health Care Freedom Act. 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)
New Dem mantra: Woof, woof eat dog food granny....ala let them eat cake.
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
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
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.
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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.
Bambi doesn't keep his promises...so buyer beware.
Rush was talking about this, what? two months ago? three months ago? Of course, he was just reporting what he got from someone else, but I had chalked this up as a failed prediction. Guess not.
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