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Pelosi To Send House Bill To Floor Today
Rachel Slajda | November 2, 2009, 9:46AM
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is planning to send the health care reform bill to the House floor today, according to The Hill.
With the bill introduced today, the earliest a vote could come is Thursday, because Pelosi has promised 72 hours for the public and Congressmen to review the legislation.
Pelosi said last week that she expects a vote before Veterans Day at the latest.
Late update: Rules Committee spokesman Vince Morris told reporters today that the vote timing has not been announced, but to "stay tuned for something later in the week."
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Indie Pro
November 2, 2009 10:10 AM
"There are 60 liberal Democrats who vowed in writing to vote against the compromise legislation worked out with several Blue Dogs to get the bill out of the Energy and Commerce Committee."
here's hoping!
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izzatxeaux
November 2, 2009 11:17 AM in reply to Indie Pro
not good. truly want to be wrong, but bet I could name 15 of the 60 who were 'peeled off' here.
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Indie Pro
November 2, 2009 11:46 AM in reply to izzatxeaux
That is too bad. Having won nothing, it looks like some progressives and liberals are ready to give up and allow this sweet deal to the insurance industry happen with their support.
Healthcare run by Wall Street.
I'm losing alot of faith in Progressive groups for going along with this. It is as if their pledges, words, and fights mean very little.
America has the most expensive Healthcare, and not the best. What is needed is a mandate and tax payer dollars to help us afford this too expensive and not so great healthcare!
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hologram5
November 2, 2009 11:49 AM
MAN, these people are SO out of touch with reality it is not even funny. It is now getting disgusting. Vote all these A-Holes out of office and get some people in there that have a clue what we are really going through.
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TexasDave
November 2, 2009 12:01 PM
Between Fox News, talk radio, Michelle Bachman, Sarah Palin, et. al., the lies about the public option have taken root. I heard David Gregory on MTP yesterday talking about how it will raise rates! Ugh! Tim Geithner did not correct him. The public option will LOWER all of our health insurance rates. That is why we want it passed. Come on. Even the most Neandrothol conservatives should get that (no offence to the Neandrothols).
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Tanjaoui
November 2, 2009 12:38 PM
I guess your feelings on this as a liberal are going to depend on whether you think this bill can lead, incrementally, to a single payer system such as that outlined in HR 676 or not. I sort of think that even if a very small number of people get into some government run public plan - and it's good value - word will get out. And then the scary scary mystery of government run health care will be lifted. But I could be wrong.
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Indie Pro
November 2, 2009 1:25 PM in reply to Tanjaoui
medicare didn't. Nor any other Health program. I don't see why this one would.
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Darrius
November 2, 2009 1:09 PM
So this why Caesar took over Rome. I see it now.
The Senate was corrupt and indecisive, and they weren't even elected by the people. We can't get our House and Senate to vote on something that can be MATHEMATICALLY PROVEN TO BE BETTER FOR THE PEOPLE than what we have now....and our representatives are elected.
Politics and probably life in general is not about telling the truth its about fighting lies.
The truth matters, but how you fight lies matters more.
- John Kerry (D-MA)
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Indie Pro
November 2, 2009 1:24 PM in reply to Darrius
Hear, hear!
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TexasDave
November 2, 2009 3:43 PM
To me the logic is so simple. If a government run health insurance plan is as bad as the tea partiers say, then no one will want to buy into it and it will be a huge failure. Everyone will turn elsewhere for their coverage. They win. If, on the otherhand, it is just like the insurance plans we have now (or even better), only cheaper, then it will be hugely popular and people will want to buy into it. Thus, the tea baggers don't believe their own retoric; they know this will be a hugely popular plan. That is why they are so rabid. The fact that they don't want their fellow countrymen having affordable health care because of their rigid ideology exposes them as morally bankrupt. I don't know anyone who does not want to pay less for health insurance.
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JerrySumpter
November 2, 2009 8:15 PM
No, this reform we've needed for decades. First, it rightfully helps correct many wrongs too long left unattended (ends denials for "pre-existing" and establishes a legal basis for maintaining coverage) and though it doesn't go far enough yet, it is a pleasing beginning to what's ahead. Don't fret - your health care's initial flight is bound to catch a few burrs (read as bad accusations from unethical fronts), but as it rolls out of the insurers' den it's been lodged in, many people will be benefiting even from the "get go". That itself - the passing of this bill - will give me greater esteem to be an American. Whether you realize it or not, a secondary effect of this bill is that the prospect of the American citizen is being rejuvenated. What will it be like to regain contact with something we are indeed proud to be a part of and to love once again? To this I say, "it will be healthy".
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