Eight Democrats in the Senate have signed a letter pushing for a majority-rules reconciliation vote on a health care bill that includes a public insurance option. Now it looks like there might be a ninth one coming on board.
The Iowa Independent reports:
Several sources, including a a
For the past few weeks, House liberals have been urging Democratic leaders in the Senate to bring up the public insurance option via the budget reconciliation process, which would sidestep the filibuster and allow a simple majority-wins vote on the contentious public plan. Now some senators More…
First of all, take all the weeks of merger negotiations and throw them out the window: It’s looking more and more like the only way the Democrats can pass health care reform — and they must pass health care reform — in the wake of yesterday’s election in More…
So says CongressDaily’s Anna Edney, who reports that Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, predicted today that the Democrats will have a merged bill to the Congressional Budget Office in a “couple days.”
That’s a much different message than the one coming More…
Earlier this week, it was Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) being targeted by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, which is hoping that some liberal lawmaker will stand up to insist that the public insurance option be included as part of the Democrats’ final health reform bill. Today, the group launched More…
Ironing Out Health Reform
After months of marathon hearings, partisan bickering and fiery floor debate, Democrats in both the House and the Senate have passed expansive health care reform bills. Now comes the hard part.
Although the two Democratic bills share the central goals of controlling health care costs and More…
Senate Democrats on Thursday approved the best health care reform bill they could manage: a sweeping $871 billion proposal designed to extend coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and slow the growth of runaway costs. It was at once a monumental achievement, representing the most expansive overhaul of More…
Good deal, says Wall Street. Here’s The Associated Press, reporting yesterday on insurance company stock prices after the Senate bill cleared its first procedural hurdle:
Shares of Aetna rose $1.81, or 5.6 percent, to $34.32; Cigna gained $2.15, or 6 percent, to $37.95; Humana added $1.71, or 3.9
Looking back on some June comments from Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), who recently forced the public option out of the Senate’s health care reform bill, his reasons for opposing the plan are striking. Not because he said at the time that a government-backed insurance plan would More…
Unveiling a modified health reform bill on Saturday, Senate Democratic leaders appear to have cobbled together the 60 votes they’ll need to pass the most expansive overhaul to the nation’s health care system in generations. But winning that support comes at a steep cost.
To satisfy Democratic moderates, Senate Majority More…
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