By: Health Insurance
Submitted: 2009-10-12 12:46:46 | Word Count: 516
Time magazine’s Karen Tumulty has the inside word that the Senate Finance Committee — Democratic Sen. Max Baucus — will kick Obamacare out on Tuesday and Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid will cram it through.
“The challenge for congressional leaders lies not only in the scope of the legislation, though it would be the largest undertaking by the government since at least 1965, when Medicare and Medicaid passed; it comes also from the delicacy involved in weaving together five separate pieces of legislation — two distinct Senate bills and three from the House. They must both satisfy the competing (and often conflicting) political and ideological interests within their party, and still produce a coherent bill that does not do more harm than good to a health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of the economy,” Tumulty reported.
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Delicacy? They are making sausage here.
But the votes and the floor debates are all for show. President Obama will write this thing in committee. They pass some sort of bill and then “compromise,” a word which now means the opposite.
“While both leaders are expressing confidence that they will manage to get a bill out of their respective chambers, that is only the first round. Then comes a conference committee, and a struggle within the Democratic Party over the Senate bill and what is certain to be a more liberal version passed by the House. That’s the point, all sides agree, where they will be looking to the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue for guidance. Barack Obama will no longer be able to stand on the sidelines and will have to declare his own position on many of the issues that have divided his party. As one top congressional aide put it, ‘The President is going to have to play a key role in all of this — including working on some trouble spots within the Democratic caucus’,” Tumulty reported.
Obama’s bill won’t be debated. It will be reconciled. There will be no filibuster. All he needs is 50 Senate votes as Vice President Joe Biden — who is, as Sarah Palin pointed out in their debate, the President of the Senate — would cast the deciding vote.
That was how Jimmy Carter gave away the Panama Canal.
Ricardo Alonso Zaldivar of the Associated Press reported over the weekend: “Many middle-class Americans would still struggle to pay for health insurance despite efforts by President Barack Obama and Democrats to make coverage more affordable.”
For a family of 4 that grosses $63,000 a year (about the average for a 2-income family) the bill for Obamacare would be $600 a month, he reported.
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