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Finance Committee To Vote On Health Care Bill On Tuesday
Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT)
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Just confirmed: the Senate Finance Committee will vote on its health care reform bill this Tuesday. The news comes after Democrats and chairman Max Baucus got a boost from the Congressional Budget Office, which found that the legislation would require relatively little new spending, while reducing the deficit and bending the health care spending curve downward.
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theWalrus
October 8, 2009 11:17 AM
What year?
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Walter Mitty
October 8, 2009 11:22 AM
Delay...delay...delay.
Dems are fading in the polls because by allowing the Republicans to delay all the damn time it seems that they're not getting anything done.
America gave them a 60 seats in the Senate, a huge majority in the House and the Presidency and they've pissed it all away.
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musgrove
October 8, 2009 11:37 AM in reply to Walter Mitty
/rolleyes
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Mr.E.
October 8, 2009 11:39 AM
The NYTimes has an article detailing the CBO's evaluation of the Finance Committee's bill. I hope TPM soon publishes the more useful analysis comparing the FC bill to the HELP bill to the House bill. And then I want to hear Ds and Rs arguments as to why they favor or disfavor the program that covers the most people and saves the most money.
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Mr.E.
October 8, 2009 11:40 AM in reply to Mr.E.
Let me be more clear. What we need to see is a side-by-side comparison of the CBO's evaluations of all three proposed bills.
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billp
October 8, 2009 12:34 PM
No matter what form the bill ultimately takes (especially if it's one that makes fiscal sense and increases the number covered), the GOP will oppose it. The better the final bill appears, the more imperative that they kill it.
If any bill passes, the President will get the credit, and the GOP has to prevent that at all costs. It would sink them in 2010 and 2012, and who knows how long after that.
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