In smoke filled back rooms.
Hey folks,
“I’m for a public option but I’m also for passing a bill,” Hoyer told reporters on a conference call. “We believe the public option is a necessary, useful and very important aspect of this, but we’ll have to see because there are many other important aspects of the bill as well.”
One is the cost. How can they spin their way out of this? Well, according to the AP - Senate negotiators aim to cut costs in health bill By ERICA WERNER, Associated Press Writer Erica Werner, Associated Press Writer –
WASHINGTON – Bipartisan health care negotiators are aiming to cut the costs of their bill after getting an earful from voters, a participant in the closed-door talks said Friday.
Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, a moderate whose support could be crucial if President Barack Obama is to realize his goal of a comprehensive health care overhaul, said contact with constituents "sharpened our focus on issues such as affordability and cost."
"We keep reinventing the wheel in terms of our approach based on what we learn at home," Snowe told The Associated Press.
Translation time folks. "We keep having to change our story when we learn that YOU know more about this Bill than we do."
Snowe is one of six senators — three Democrats and three Republicans — on the pivotal Senate Finance Committee who have been negotiating for months to come up with a health care bill that could garner bipartisan support.
With raucous town halls dominating Congress' August recess and prospects for bipartisanship appearing to dim, Snowe said the outcome was uncertain.
"People are confused, and rightfully so given how many issues and how many plans are out there," Snowe said. "Ours isn't, and so whether or not we can break through that chatter remains to be seen."
Did she just say, "there are many plans out there, but OUR'S Isn't? So we may be able to pass OUR'S because no one read it?" So what is THIS Bill?
Members of the so-called Gang of Six spoke on a conference call late Thursday, their first discussion since leaving Washington for recess.
They discussed controlling costs on their bill while still extending affordable coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans. The final price tag will likely hover around $900 billion over 10 years.
Snowe said keeping down costs means tinkering with the design of health care plans that would be offered through new purchasing exchanges. Another piece is the level of subsidies to be offered to help low-income people buy care, something that remains a matter of debate, Snowe said.
In their reach for a bipartisan product, Finance Committee negotiators are looking at nonprofit co-ops instead of a new public insurance plan that has become a lightning rod in the debate.
How that will turn out remains to be seen. Another Finance negotiator, Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., has said there are not enough votes in the Senate to pass a health bill with a new public plan that would compete with private insurers.
That's the truth. NO ONE WANTS Obamacare.
But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Thursday that the House couldn't pass a bill without one.
Dimwitted Twit. I hope she is right. I hope they continue to push Obamacare down everyone's throat. They will lose in the end.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer seemed to contradict Pelosi on Friday when asked about her comments.
"I'm for a public option but I'm also for passing a bill," Hoyer, D-Md., told reporters. "We believe the public option is a necessary, useful and very important aspect of this, but you know, we'll have to see because there are many other important aspects of the bill as well."
Obama and members of his administration this week indicated a public plan wasn't an essential piece of a final bill, drawing criticism from some Democrats.
Yeah but then they all came back on TV and said it IS.
Before leaving town for a 10-day vacation, Obama met Friday with former Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle, an expert on health care policy and politics who was Obama's first choice for secretary of Health and Human Services before tax troubles derailed his nomination. A White House statement said the two "agreed that substantive reform that lowers costs, reforms the insurance industry, and expands coverage is too important to wait another year or another administration."
Told you so. Remember Daschle is the one that wrote the book telling Old People to just deal with what comes as they age. No healthcare for them.
Daschle says health-care reform “will not be pain free.” Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them. That means the elderly will bear the brunt.
But of course, there are no Death Panels. Right? Do not forget what else I've been telling you. Whatever they remove now, they can and WILL put back LATER when they have total control.
So yes. They are working hard in the smoke filled Backrooms, TRYING hard to come up with something that will pass. Even though their own people figure that it will increase the deficient by 9 to ten TRILLION dollars over the next decade. We can not afford this anyway that you look at it. No matter what they try to spin toward you.
Don't let them fool you. Keep it up folks. It IS working.
Peter
Sources:
AP - Senate negotiators aim to cut costs in health bill
Hey folks,
“I’m for a public option but I’m also for passing a bill,” Hoyer told reporters on a conference call. “We believe the public option is a necessary, useful and very important aspect of this, but we’ll have to see because there are many other important aspects of the bill as well.”One is the cost. How can they spin their way out of this? Well, according to the AP - Senate negotiators aim to cut costs in health bill By ERICA WERNER, Associated Press Writer Erica Werner, Associated Press Writer –
WASHINGTON – Bipartisan health care negotiators are aiming to cut the costs of their bill after getting an earful from voters, a participant in the closed-door talks said Friday.
Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, a moderate whose support could be crucial if President Barack Obama is to realize his goal of a comprehensive health care overhaul, said contact with constituents "sharpened our focus on issues such as affordability and cost."
"We keep reinventing the wheel in terms of our approach based on what we learn at home," Snowe told The Associated Press.
Translation time folks. "We keep having to change our story when we learn that YOU know more about this Bill than we do."
Snowe is one of six senators — three Democrats and three Republicans — on the pivotal Senate Finance Committee who have been negotiating for months to come up with a health care bill that could garner bipartisan support.
With raucous town halls dominating Congress' August recess and prospects for bipartisanship appearing to dim, Snowe said the outcome was uncertain.
"People are confused, and rightfully so given how many issues and how many plans are out there," Snowe said. "Ours isn't, and so whether or not we can break through that chatter remains to be seen."
Did she just say, "there are many plans out there, but OUR'S Isn't? So we may be able to pass OUR'S because no one read it?" So what is THIS Bill?
Members of the so-called Gang of Six spoke on a conference call late Thursday, their first discussion since leaving Washington for recess.
They discussed controlling costs on their bill while still extending affordable coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans. The final price tag will likely hover around $900 billion over 10 years.
Snowe said keeping down costs means tinkering with the design of health care plans that would be offered through new purchasing exchanges. Another piece is the level of subsidies to be offered to help low-income people buy care, something that remains a matter of debate, Snowe said.
In their reach for a bipartisan product, Finance Committee negotiators are looking at nonprofit co-ops instead of a new public insurance plan that has become a lightning rod in the debate.
How that will turn out remains to be seen. Another Finance negotiator, Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., has said there are not enough votes in the Senate to pass a health bill with a new public plan that would compete with private insurers.
That's the truth. NO ONE WANTS Obamacare.
But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Thursday that the House couldn't pass a bill without one.
Dimwitted Twit. I hope she is right. I hope they continue to push Obamacare down everyone's throat. They will lose in the end.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer seemed to contradict Pelosi on Friday when asked about her comments.
"I'm for a public option but I'm also for passing a bill," Hoyer, D-Md., told reporters. "We believe the public option is a necessary, useful and very important aspect of this, but you know, we'll have to see because there are many other important aspects of the bill as well."
Obama and members of his administration this week indicated a public plan wasn't an essential piece of a final bill, drawing criticism from some Democrats.
Yeah but then they all came back on TV and said it IS.
Before leaving town for a 10-day vacation, Obama met Friday with former Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle, an expert on health care policy and politics who was Obama's first choice for secretary of Health and Human Services before tax troubles derailed his nomination. A White House statement said the two "agreed that substantive reform that lowers costs, reforms the insurance industry, and expands coverage is too important to wait another year or another administration."
Told you so. Remember Daschle is the one that wrote the book telling Old People to just deal with what comes as they age. No healthcare for them.
Daschle says health-care reform “will not be pain free.” Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them. That means the elderly will bear the brunt.
But of course, there are no Death Panels. Right? Do not forget what else I've been telling you. Whatever they remove now, they can and WILL put back LATER when they have total control.
So yes. They are working hard in the smoke filled Backrooms, TRYING hard to come up with something that will pass. Even though their own people figure that it will increase the deficient by 9 to ten TRILLION dollars over the next decade. We can not afford this anyway that you look at it. No matter what they try to spin toward you.
Don't let them fool you. Keep it up folks. It IS working.
Peter
Sources:
AP - Senate negotiators aim to cut costs in health bill
2 comments:
It's the same old tactic. Who says we need to (must) reform our health care industry. Once you buy into that bullshit, then it becomes the governments job to change it. duh So what do we think they are going to do? The only problem with health care in this country is the governments involvement in the first place.
ARRRAAGHHHH.
Everyone is looking for a free lunch; ie; lets bring back slavery, but this time we will make the medical professions our slaves; sos different area.
Yup,
The Cost will SKYROCKET, and Care will go down. It doesn't really matter WHAT they TELL you, these are the facts.
I would be willing to bet that not to many people will decide to join up for the new form of slavery. So Doctors will decrease as well.
Peter
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