Comments on: Much Ado Over Almost Nothing

By: dduck12

dduck12 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:01:33 +0000

Baucus has already admitted that this was more a Snowe bill than a Baucus bill. In other words a Snowe job.
However I do admire some mavericks that aren't always in lock step with the party leaders; we could use more of them. (A dying breed?)

By: DLS

DLS — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:28:51 +0000

That the lefty kiddies are excited is not surprising. This represents progress (“VICTORY FOR *OBAMA*” as CNN proudly displayed its leading “news” story last night) as well as relief after weeks of failure.

Of course, now the hard work begins, actually drafting legislation — and making it compatible with the other four legislative “marvels” being crafted. Then comes that House-Senate conference pow-wow. Wow

I still await the push from lib Dim-Dims in the Animal House (the world's closest menagerie-asylum to the UN General Assembly thanks to Dim-Dim antics to date). The far-lefty talkers are already panting with excitement about this “progress” this week and the need to dig in deep, blast Harry Reid and other Dems in the Senate, and insist the House lead the way toward a “strong, comprehensive public option.”

By: dduck12

dduck12 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:28:19 +0000

Emasculating an important provision: the original mandate of $3,800 would have forced many more people to sign up for insurance and thus mitigate the adverse selection problem of healthy people not signing up, resulting in a sicker pool of insureds. Ignoring the Constitutional problem of not allowing mandates, for the moment, this provision was in effect squashed.
"But an amendment approved to the health-care bill late Thursday seeks to soften the impact of the mandate by lowering the highest possible penalty, from a top level of $950 to $750 a year. The penalty wouldn't apply at all until 2014, and it would gradually increase each year until it reached $750 in 2017."
This from this article: http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091002-71...
No wonder the insurance companies have gone ballistic. So should we all.

By: dduck12

dduck12 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:12:21 +0000

This Finance Committee vote could mean very little when put under the microscope of general debate.
A bit of dealing went on as noted in this article:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB200014240527487...

By: elrod

elrod — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:14:37 +0000

This farther along than we have been in 97 years of seeking universal health coverage.

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