Posted on 01/20/2010 11:01:28 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
The president said he would be open to scaling back health reform legislation in order to salvage it.
President Barack Obama suggested he's open to Congress passing a scaled-back health-care bill, potentially sacrificing much of his signature policy initiative as chaos engulfed Capitol Hill Wednesday.
Top Democrats said they would press ahead despite growing doubts among rank-and-file members that they can pass a bill they've been laboring over for nearly a year. A host of ideas offered in recent days have lost favor.
One day after losing their filibuster-proof Senate majority in a Massachusetts special election, exhausted Senate Democrats looked downtrodden as they filed into their weekly lunch in a second-floor room at the Capitol. "People are hysterical right now," said one Senate aide.
Party members clashed openly over what to do next. Sen. Max Baucus, a top Senate Democrat, appeared to throw cold water on a bill that would focus only on stiffer insurance regulations. Rep. Charles Rangel, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, scotched another idea, a complicated parliamentary maneuver to usher a bill quickly to the president's desk.
In an interview with ABC News, President Obama said he would be open to scaling back the legislation in order to salvage it. "I would advise that we try to move quickly to coalesce around those elements in the package that people agree on," Obama said. White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer said later the president would prefer Congress to pass the comprehensive package, and hasn't given up on that option.
A pared-down bill could still restrict insurance companies
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......Indecision and hiding from questions is his game.....
Indecision and hiding from questions are his failure.
The messiah is but rank and file. He has no executive or leadership abilities.
He is the definition of the Peter Principle
Yes, but try not having insurance, getting in an accident, then trying to buy it.
I have talked with people in the insurance business, and their biggest hangup is the pre existing condition concept. Put that way, it sounds cruel. But the reality is that if you can buy health insurance at any time with no restrictions, the young healthy crowd will not buy it until they need it, and the industry will DIE.
Just like letting people wait until they have a wreck, then letting them buy car insurance.
I hear Rahm Emanuel has voluntered to be the sacrificial POS......as long as he can wear his tutu.
0bama’s “emergency fly ins”
Copenhagen: Chicago Olympics
Corzine, Jon
Creigh Deeds
Copenhagen Climate Change
Coakley, Martha
0-5
The Dems seem determined to keep adding more humps to the camel until even the densest voter won't be able to ignore the freakishness of the creature.
There is nothing about the Senate bill or the house bill that is redeemable. Both are predicated on “social control” , not “health care.”The bills are tyrannical,unecessarily exploitive and punitive. Why should Americans be punished, I ASK YOU? Eff you leftist bastards!!!
The Left’s health care bills are about acheiving access to the peronal wealth of a whole generation of Americans and ripping that wealth away from them during time of sickness.Its a demographic warfare bill.
As such it does not deserve to be saved, resurrected and , or amended. It needs a swift and uncompromising death. If it is passed it will mean civil war.
If the dems want to insure 30 million uninsured out of 300 million with 270 million already insured in the USA, let them do so. Just stay away from the IRS as a debt collector and keep your hands off my private health care, and leave my civil liberties alone, unless you want war.
If it happens, don’t leave any cash in the bank. It won’t be yours for long.
Bingo ..Im with you my friend.
“If Obama had a clue he’d lock Pelosi, Reid, Frank, Boxer and every last one of them in their office and deny any out going calls.”
I need a cigarette after THAT fantasy...(and I don’t even smoke!)
One gallon of Tabasco sauce. Enough for 60......er...59 Senators easy.
Chug a lug
Chug a lug
Makes you wanna holler hidey-ho
Barns yo tummy doncha know
Chug a lug
Chug a lug
I disagree with you on this. This is the perfect time for the GOP to show that it has been willing ALL ALONG to work on reasonable health care reform, but that the Dems have refused until now to even let the GOP participate in any meaningful way. The GOP can co-opt health care reform if they play it right.
Do something reasonable on pre-existing conditions (NOT allowing post diagnosis insurance sign up, but finding some middle ground), getting true portability of coverage (which probably means working to get the employer out of the health care game), tort reform (start out moderately, but do SOMETHING on it, because tort reform IS popular), and inter-state marketing of insurance (which actually provides the interstate commerce support making the law constitutional).
Hi Ho!
If this turns out to be the case, then 'we the people' need to make sure it's absolutely a one way mission for every single one of the 218 - no survivors.
And this is all still among democrats? Still no republicans allowed in the deliberations?
Right. Out with the bums. This will be their final Banzai charge.
You can’t negotiate with scum.
Criminal scum at that.
pssst...the media is liberal.
Having the Dems spin their wheels until after the elections would be an ideal scenario, IMHO.
I don’t have a good response to that, other than to say that the GOP should heavily publicize that they are TRYING to get something done. I don’t really think the dems will go along, but this “Party of No” moniker is troubling to me, even though the GOP was shut out.
I am toying in my shallow mind with the concept of health care as akin to a utility, like electricity or water service. The concept doesn’t completely fit, but the idea of private companies competing for a publicly regulated and universally needed (I say this because our country does not have the stomach to refuse health care to those who are unable or unwilling to purchase insurance, so therefore we really DO have universal healthcare, just really poorly administered) commodity may provide a good model. It is akin to municipal contracts for cable TV service, at least something like it.
Just a thought, worth about what you are paying for it.
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