Senate begins tackling health bill: Reid Committed to Public Option
On Monday night, the majority leader met with a concerned group of progressive Senators. He assured them that he remained committed to the public option.
Mr Brown, the leader of the progressive Democrats had confidence that the holdouts would eventually vote for the bill “I don’t think in the end, anybody here in our caucus wants to be on the wrong side of history, wants to kill on a procedural motion, something as important as this...”
Mr. Reid expects the Senate to pass a health care reform bill before Christmas.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/senate-begins-tackling-health-bill...
http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/senate-liberals-demand-reid-ho...
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- current89
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Too many obstacles in the Senate. DOA.
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- My_America
- 4 days ago
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Thanks for updating this developing story!
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If this bill passes then all employers will be required to get insurance for their employers which will in turn close alot of small businesses because they cannot afford it. My wife will be out of a job.
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Power to the people right on!
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- Atalanda_Cameron
- 4 days ago
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Let's get this thing passed already. I think this whole process underscores why the Senate was such a horrible concession to the slave states. The sooner we get rid of that compromise fossil, the better off the actual majority of Americans will be.
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Anyone besides me notice that the states with the highest number of pediatric deaths related to H1N1 are mostly from states with predominantly Republican senators? Clinton's Arkansas and New Mexico being notable exceptions.
You have to look at the first table on the page at the link, and then look at the states in each region (very small print beneath the table), and then check party affiliation.
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm?OrderBy=party...
Region 4 = AL (R+R), FL (R+D), GA(R+R), KY(R+R), MS(R+R), NC(R+D), SC(R+R), TN(R+R)
Region 6= AR (D+D), LA (R+D), NM (D+D), OK (R+R), TX (R+R)
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- Incredulous
- 4 days ago
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Power to the People? Ha, ha, ha - Power to Big Government!! Unemployment highs - here we come!!
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For those of you who want socialized medicine go to a socialist country. This is completely un-Constitutional. Even if the house bill is passed nothing happens until 2013. Stop with the lazy gimme attitude that you should have "free" healthcare. It's NOT a right! Lastly, the Feds don't run Medicaid, Medicare, welfare, or Social Security well; what makes you thing they can run socialized healthcare well? Wake up to the left / right paradigm.
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^ this is true, 10th amendment FTW
Keep it private, its how we're built to work. Right or wrong it is.
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Public option? So what? It doesn't mean anything.
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Hi current89,
WakeUpPeople has updated this developing story!
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I am just laughing a little because, if this passes, I'm gonna guess 30% at least of you little right wingnuts are going to be lining up for it, and damn glad it passed, although you will of course never admit to anyone, including yourself.
