Stupak said today that "House members will not vote for the Senate bill"

[highplainsdem]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/health/policy/19health.html

Democrats May Seek to Push Health Bill Through House

By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and ROBERT PEAR
Published: January 18, 2010


WASHINGTON — The White House and Democratic Congressional leaders, scrambling for a backup plan to rescue their health care legislation if Republicans win the special election in Massachusetts on Tuesday, have begun laying the groundwork to ask House Democrats to approve the Senate version of the bill and send it directly to President Obama for his signature.

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In an interview on Monday, Representative Bart Stupak, a Michigan Democrat who opposes the Senate bill in part because of provisions related to insurance coverage of abortions, said: “House members will not vote for the Senate bill. There’s no interest in that.”

When the idea was suggested at a Democratic caucus meeting last week, Mr. Stupak said, “It went over like a lead balloon.”

“Why would any House member vote for the Senate bill, which is loaded with special-interest provisions for certain states?” Mr. Stupak asked. “That’s not health care.”

In addition to his concerns on the abortion provisions, Mr. Stupak said the Senate bill did not do enough to improve the quality of health care, and it preserved the federal antitrust exemption for health insurance, which the House bill would repeal.

[w4rma]

1. Good. (nt)

[BP2]

2. The Stupak Amendment was passed 240-194. We would have to lose

23 votes to get below 218.

How big is the anti-choice caucus anyway?

[sharesunited]

5. There are other provisions like the tax on cadillac plans which will prompt No votes.

[endless october]

3. believe me, they'll vote it through.

it's passing almost as is one way or the other. too much lobbying money from health insurance companies has gone into it for the Insurance Bailout Act of 2010 not to pass.

sorry if that sounds jaded, but that's just the way i see it. $635 million is apparently the price tag to keep real reform off the table.

[BP2]

4. Crap, there's 39 of them. Not good at all.