Posted on 12/11/2009 10:24:59 AM PST by EagleUSA
WASHINGTON -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi expressed support Thursday for a Senate Democratic proposal to expand Medicare, raising prospects that the two chambers of Congress can work out differences on health-care legislation.
The proposal would open Medicare to some people ages 55 to 64, and is a key feature of a deal among senior Senate Democrats that would abandon efforts to enact a big government-run health-insurance program. The deal would also empower the government's Office of Personnel Management to contract with private insurers to offer new low-cost insurance plans.
The deal is a key difference between the Senate bill and the House's measure, which was passed in November and includes a direct government-run insurance plan.
Ms. Pelosi (D., Calif.) stopped short of endorsing the full Senate compromise, saying she needed to see "something in writing." But she said "there is certainly a great deal of appeal" in expanding Medicare.
Other House Democrats were more cautious. Jim Cooper of Tennessee, a member of the fiscally conservative Blue Dog coalition, said he was "watchful and hopeful" about the idea, but couldn't commit to supporting it.
Top Democrats want to wrap up action on the health bill quickly and turn to other priorities, including jobs. Senate Democratic leaders hope to pass a bill as soon as late next week, though they have yet to lock up the 60 votes they need to ensure passage.
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
Wow, Pelosi needed both of her brain cells to express support.
It’s been a good day in Belosibimbo brain land.
While dropping the age to 55 & yanking 550 million dollars out of it. Yeah, sweet move.
OK, let me see if I got this right? So schip covers you from ages 0 - 27 and medicare covers you from 55 - when ever. Who pays the bills, those aged 27 - 54.
The pessismist in me thinks this is a done deal. Just a matter of how much pork Pelosi and Reid need to serve to the whores, for example Landrieu and Cao, to get a yes vote.
Cant afford the people we have om Medicare.
Are they still going to cut 500 billion from it ?
Next year they will drop the age to 45 and the year after that to 35 and pretty soon everyone will be on Medicare.
Nancy Pelosi wants this bill passed so bad there isnt anything she wouldnt agree with.
That is exactly what they want. Maybe they won't get the whole enchilida but they will screw up the private insurance market so much idiots will then clamour for the complete gov't takeover.
in a perverse kind of way, won’t this encourage employers to hire those 55 and older because their health care costs will be shoved onto the government?
Gee, THERE's a "Stop the Presses!" announcement!
/sarc
Your tag line? Didn’t Che say that?
Nancy Pelosi wants this bill passed so bad there isnt anything she wouldnt agree with.
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Yes, exactly. They are trying to save Obama’s miserable butt, but at the same time they need a win, given all they have already done to this country, so badly, they are willing to DO ANYTHING TO ANYONE AT ANY PRICE SIMPLY TO GET A PERCEIVED WIN. These Marxist bastards are dangerous, pathetic, and useless to America.
According to consistent poll numbers, tens of millions got a “signal” for you, Pelosi and company.....
Everybody agrees that MediCare is broke or going broke, so the "solution" is to add more people to be covered by it and cut the funding... and then everyone will have "free" health care?
Does not pass the sanity test; it's so unbelievably unworkable and so easy to shoot at, that even if they get their "victory" in the House-Senate conference, it will never be funded and will be rolled back (and then some) after 2010 elections.
The repeat of "The era of Big Government is over!" is nigh; even if Obama won't say those words, many people will.
I don’t know, I just saw it and liked it. It certainly has no marxist meaning to me. Other then I will die in the struggle before I will live under marxism.
The exact quote is most often attributed to Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, and it has often been taken to use in 20th century by various Marxist leaders and revolutionaries of all persuasions.
However, the phrase or sentiment has originated much earlier and goes back to at least the French Revolution, with some attributing similar idea to Jean-Paul Marat. And it is not all that much different from Patrick Henry’s earlier “Give me liberty or give me death”.
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