Fox News reported this morning that Speaker Nancy Pelosi was working on her own draft of the health care bill -- which a Pelosi aide tells us is false.
Fox had a breaking news item: "We are learning this morning that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is working on her own draft of the health care overhaul - including another push for government-run health insurance."
Again, we repeat: A Pelosi aide confirms to us that this is false.
So where do things actually stand? Well, the health care bills are making their way through multiple committees, and the Dem leaders and chairs of those committees have been working to iron out the differences. Perhaps the brilliant parliamentarians at Fox heard something about Pelosi's participation in that ongoing process, and concluded that she's working on her own bill.

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mans_best_friend
September 25, 2009 10:09 AM
News flash!! Fox News has never been encumbered by objective reality. Film at 11.
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The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
September 25, 2009 10:22 AM
In FoxWorld, there is no difference between leadership doing what leadership is supposed to do under the rules when multiple committees have jurisdiction. The important point is that it gives them a means to start calling the House bill "the Pelosi Bill" that's got as much basis in fact as any of the other "facts" in the construct that wingnuts inhabit in lieu of reality.
They'll never acknowledge. It's just the same as their continued concern that ZOMG! Obama Has, Like, Twentyleventeen Secret Czars Doing God Knows What!!!!!! even though he has fewer than Bush did.
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Weeferdog
September 25, 2009 10:31 AM
This is just Fox yelling 'Pelosi!' in a crowded country ... trying to alarm their well-informed viewers about yet another Socialist takeover attempt.
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dswx
September 25, 2009 10:42 AM in reply to Weeferdog
I prefer "Fox/RNC" yelling "Pelosi" in a crowded country, since it has been proven that the RNC spoon-feeds disinformation to Fox to read as "news".
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eztempo
September 25, 2009 11:29 AM in reply to Weeferdog
Policy "trial balloons" get floated in the WaPo and the NY Times by the White House. The Republicans (RNC) try out their disinformation campaigns on Fox's air. I guess the Nielsen and Arbitron overnights give them more useful info than reading the tea leaves of public reaction to actual news stories.
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docrocktex
September 25, 2009 10:32 AM
fox will do anything they can to demonize nancy pelosi
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fsudirectory
September 25, 2009 10:37 AM
They attack Pelosi because shes an intense woman that pisses people off, thus easy to characterize her as a bitch.
My friend that attempts to discuss politics with no information besides drudge headlines once told me he doesnt like her politics that she is too far right, too centrist, and then said too left, and said he mistook her for Sarah Palin.
People hear her name and automatically think 'Zomg!$ Crazy nut job woman coming to ruin our lives just like our ex-wives'
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AnswerFrog
September 25, 2009 11:37 AM in reply to fsudirectory
I don't think she's easy to characterize that way at all. She is tactful and measured, if anything. Progressive, for sure, but a pragmatic one.
The fact that Fox & other wingnuts try to tar her as some kind of ultra-left harpie just shows how tiresome and kneejerk their playbook is.
Sometimes it doesn't matter what you do if someone is intent on demonizing and stereotyping you.
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AnswerFrog
September 25, 2009 11:30 AM
Just Fox making up shit.
Motherfoxers.
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kaylaspop
September 25, 2009 11:51 AM
Nancy Pelosi scares the wingers to death. That's why they feel the need to demonize her at every turn.
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VivaAmerica!
September 25, 2009 11:55 AM
Pelosi crafting her own doesn't even make any sense.
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Cool Blue Reason
September 25, 2009 12:10 PM
This is what happens when the people over at Fox start believing their own propaganda. After weeks of declaring the public option dead, reports of actual legislative proceedings are bound to be confusing for them.
No doubt they'll enjoy getting punked repeatedly in the course of the next several weeks.
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jeffgee
September 25, 2009 12:16 PM
Or maybe they're just makin' stuff up again. Surprise, surprise.
Sarah's command to "stop makin' stuff up" wasn't meant for them.
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Kuyleh
September 25, 2009 1:39 PM
Faux News lied again. It's sad that we expect this.
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Armageddon T. Thunderbird
September 25, 2009 3:20 PM
Fox News - I tune-in to them whenever I am interested in seeing what is going on in Oceania.
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hsr0601
September 26, 2009 11:47 AM
The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that having a "public option" would squeeze $100 billion in costs from the system over 10 years because of competition with private insurers, Pelosi said.
Compromise doesn't mean compromising the essence of policy, all know it !!
1. As regards a make-believe scheme, the source of funding coming from a middle class is utterly against the commitment of Democratic party.
2. No cost-competitive advantage of the insurer-friendly scheme does not clear the grave concern about the unsustainable cost of overall health care program in the long run. Baucus scheme Doesn't Bend Cost Curve Enough, Experts Say.
The scheme proposes a "fake" alternative, nonprofit insurance cooperatives -- and it places so many "restrictions" on these cooperatives that, according to the Congressional Budget Office, they "seem unlikely to establish a significant market presence in many areas of the country."
3. Even with some benefit for primary practitioners, the baseless scheme does not come with fundamental payment reform, or a pay for value reimbursement formula. It means that the insurer-friendly scheme is not cleaning up the concerns over a quality issue and $9trillion of deficit over the next decade.
((Here is some of CBO analysis : While the costs of the financial bailouts and economic stimulus bills are staggering, they are only a fraction of the coming costs from Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Over the next decade, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that each year Medicaid will expand by 7 percent, Medicare by 6 percent, and Social Security by 5 percent. These programs face a 75-year shortfall of $43 trillion--60 times greater than the gross cost of the $700 billion TARP financial bailout)).
4. For Medicare & Medicaid system to survive from the most wasteful structure on earth, enough savings by way of fundamental changes need to be secured, in return, the savings thereof suffice to meet the goal of well-planned public option.
((Even with far less visits to docs, which average a half or a third of them in any other free states, Americans pay roughly twice as much per person right now)).
5. For the record, prior to nation-wide deployment of reform, The State Of "Yes We Can", Minnesota influenced by Mayo clinic spends "20 percent" less per patient than the national average and 31 percent less than in the highest cost state. It highlights that no substantial tax raise is needed at least for sure.
((The $583 billion of revenue package, and the astronomical savings of public option aside, "20%" of $923.5bn (the combined Medicare and Medicaid cost per year, as of July) represents around $184.7bn per year and 1.847trillion over the next decade, and this patient-centered value alone could be sufficient to meet the goal of public option)).
6. In brief, the long-awaited and most hopeful health care plan is to meet these criterias : Affordability, Quality, and A Check function against runaway premiums thereof.
Clearly enough, due largely to its lower overhead cost, purchasing power and fundamental payment reform, the well-planned public option would be doing moore than the fabricated scheme by THE INDUSTRY in these aforementioned regards.
Now is the moment to turn page to contemporary energy and financial upgrades glossed over in 8 years.
Thank You !
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