US House panel to consider healthcare (reconciliation) bill Monday

[sabra]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON, March 12 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives Budget Committee on Monday will consider a reconciliation bill that Democrats hope clears the way for final congressional approval of an overhaul of U.S. healthcare, House Democratic Leader Steny Hoyer said on Friday.

Representative Jim Clyburn, a member of the House Democratic leadership, said he hopes a vote by the full chamber could be held on the measure within the next 10 days.

The White House announced earlier on Friday that President Barack Obama has postponed a trip to Asia so that he could stay in Washington and help fellow Democrats get healthcare across the finish line.

Obama has pushed hard for a final vote on the healthcare overhaul, a top domestic priority, which has ignited a long-running political brawl with Republicans and consumed Congress for the last nine months.

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[WhiteTara]

1. let's get this done and move on!

Then we can work on Grayson's bill as the next step.

[No Elephants]

3. As the next step in the hope that Congress actually intends to pass anything good?

[rooftoprevolutionary]

2. hope springs eternal

but that doesn't mean it'll happen. i have a sneaking suspicion that the bill will either not make it or be passed and then never improved upon, leaving many loose ends like public option dangling in an eternal bipartisan wind storm.

[SandWalker1984]

4. Reconciliation is a fantasy -- you really expect the Senate to cooperate?

The best the Senate could come up with in the name of health care reform is a bill that gives little to Americans while greatly benefiting the health care industry -- the very corporations that created the health care crisis leading to the demand for health care reform. It rewards the perpetrators and fines the victims if they cannot afford the mandated insurance servitude! How insane and broke is our system.

The Senate will not go against their corporate masters by passing a reconciliation bill. That's reality. (Remember NAFTA.)

Mandated corporate profits with lots of loopholes so the insurance corporations can increase your deductibles, deny treatment and increase your premiums. It's all about THEM.


If you don't like the Senate bill, then call your House Rep to tell them to vote NO.

[SandWalker1984]

5. Senate parliamentarian rules no reconciliation package before Senate bill signed into law

Ruling Kills an Option for Moving Health Bill
By David M. Drucker
Roll Call Staff
March 11, 2010, 2:30 p.m.

The Senate Parliamentarian has ruled that President Barack Obama must sign Congress’ original health care reform bill before the Senate can act on a companion reconciliation package, senior GOP sources said Thursday.

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House Democratic leaders have been searching for a way to ensure that any move they make to approve the Senate-passed $871 billion health care reform bill is followed by Senate action on a reconciliation package of adjustments to the original bill. One idea is to have the House and Senate act on reconciliation prior to House action on the Senate’s original health care bill.

Information Republicans say they have received from the Senate Parliamentarian’s Office eliminates that option.


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Another reason to believe a reconciliation bill to "fix" the Senate bill is a fantasy.

[The Magistrate]

6. At This Point, Sir, That Is Mere Rumor, And Sourced To Known Liars

[groundloop]

7. THAT IS INCORRECT - Senate Parlimiamentarian has stated so himself