Posted on 01/20/2010 1:59:58 PM PST by earlJam
Obama now seeks pared-down health care bill
WASHINGTON – Chastened by the Democratic Senate loss in Massachusetts, President Barack Obama and congressional allies signaled Wednesday they will try to scale back his sweeping health care overhaul in an effort to at least keep parts of it alive.
A simpler, less ambitious bill emerged as an alternative only hours after the loss of the party's crucial 60th Senate seat forced the Democrats to slow their all-out drive to pass Obama's signature legislation and reconsider all options.
No decisions have been made, lawmakers said, but they laid out a new approach that could still include these provisions: limiting the ability of insurance companies to deny coverage to people with medical problems, allowing young adults to stay on their parents' policies, helping small businesses and low-income people pay premiums and changing Medicare to encourage payment for quality care instead of sheer volume of services.
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Another option, which called for the House to try to quickly pass the Senate version of the broader bill — bypassing the Senate problem created by the loss of the Massachusetts seat to Republican Scott Brown — appeared to be losing favor.
"That's a bitter pill for the House to swallow," said the No. 2 Senate Democrat, Dick Durbin of Illinois.
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No No No.... ! None of it is any good.
Hey, big “0” READ OUR LIPS - no government run healthcare in any form. We don’t trust you, your leftist buddies in government or the horse ya’ll rode in on. We got a lot of cleaning up to do after years of socialism sneaking in at every turn from every agency, university,and news media. We are fed up and we’re not going to take it any more! Move over and let us get to work.
that's what I call scaled back!
Simplified?
1800 pages of corruption unread by any human being, instead of 2500 pages?
...limiting the ability of insurance companies to deny coverage to people with medical problems...
This won’t work without the individual mandate. People will just wait until they’re ill to buy insurance. Makes no sense.
NO health care reform is constitutional. There should be no deals or compromises on this. It was a BAD - really BAD - idea from the beginning and they should just KILL THE BILL!
No. Let's not get too overconfident. I watched the "suspense" buildup (deliberate delay) of Girlyman Gibbs' presser. It was held up JUST so...Obama's MAGNANIMOUS message of bipartisanship to get to the max number of people. Mission accomplished. I'm a 30 year vet of politics, and I'm not trying to mess up anyone's cornflakes, I just know this play well. Bill Clinton was the master, Obama is an apprentice with access to Bill.
It goes like this: run and be elected as a moderate. Veer sharp left. Keep finger to wind until rumble of peasants is audible, but not QUITE ominous. Engineer pressworthy appearances to highlight sudden veer back toward center (of course, NEVER waste a good catastrophe). Wait until peasants calm down. Veer left. Keep finger to the wind until rumble of peasants is audible, but not QUITE ominous. Engineer pressworthy appearances to highlight sudden veer back toward center....
Repeat.
Obama was sold to the credulous (which, unfortunately, is the late show-and-Oprah-numbed majority) as a - more or less, sorta kinda- moderate, promising the kind of change YOU can believe in!
Immediately upon taking office, Obama IMMEDIATELY launched into leftist wingnut mode (started acting like himself in public, in other words) and the public immediately turned on him. The public is BIG. It has momentum. This can take a while. Obama being an even more arrogant prick than Bill Clinton refused to listen to those with their fingers to the wind, even after the peasant rumble passed from ominous to distinctly threatening.
YESTERDAY, it was finally made clear to Obama that the peasants are not just rumbling, we're issuing evacuation orders because a major eruption IS imminent...Obama's slow, but when he finally gets there, he's finally there.
What we witnessed today is the [first] engineered press appearance by an Obamanista, which was SPECIFICALLY engineered to highlighted his sudden veer back toward center. It's a RUSE, to buy time until the rumbling dies down. Gibbs actually had the AUDACITY to insist that Obama has been centered all along on improving the economy! and that CONGRESS is too! Holy bullchips, Batman, Baghdad Bob should take LESSONS.
Anyhow, don't fall for it. It's a lie, another construct of the left to lull the public back into submission.
Like the Town Hall protests never happened?
We have to be vilgalant now for this new tactic is obvious, they will attack from within and corrupt the message.
Snakes in the grass or on a plane!...lol
Another lie like the Haiti coverage which is all about bringing unlimited third world people to America with liberal news media spin and doing Obama’s dirty work.
Not true. There are reforms that would help restore choice, responsibility, and rationality to the process of selecting, receiving, and paying for healthcare, while helping to hold costs down.
Such as
-promote HSAs
-allow competition across state lines
-repeal mandated coverages
-reform tort laws
-make health services pricing transparent
But why does Obama want none of this?
A big pared down healthcare bill is the only kind that can get through Congress now (if that). That means no federally funded abortions, no public options, no triggers for public options etc. There will also be major disagreements on ways to pay for this healthcare monstrosity. The dems are killing each other, in effect, committing political suicide over the healthcare fiasco. Especially when all the negotiations take place behind closed doors, not open to public scrutiny and still arrogantly say they will pass it anyway when 60% of Americans do not support the healthcare bill in its present form! No wonder the dems lost Massachusetts.
You know The Angry Black Woman is really pissed that their dream of Socializing America's Health-care has FAILED!
NO EFFING THANK YOU LIAR, we don’t want anything you are selling DON’T YOU GET IT?!?!?
Doesnt sound all that pared down to me.
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