Healthcare Bill Will Pass With Public Option Despite Media Distortions
By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
I've just emerged from a Democratic Women's Working Committee briefing for reporters on Capitol Hill and the four female House members there believe the ultimate bill to emerge from Congress will contain a public option. More about other interesting facts in a report they released at that meeting down below. But the headline is that the media have portrayed an unfairly negative view of healthcare negotiations on Capitol Hill, and these women believe healthcare reform will prevail and the bill sent to President Obama will contain a public option, so opposed by conservatives.
The members, Illinois Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky, New York Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney, California Democratic Rep. Lois Capps and Wisconsin Democratic Rep. Gwen Moore believe even if the public option does not make it out of the U.S. Senate, it will be included in the House version of healthcare reform and it will make it through a House-Senate Conference Committee.
The report released at the meeting by the Congressional Joint Economic Committee includes some generally-known data and some new information. It's rather well-known that women pay more for health insurance than men (as they do for dry cleaning, hair cuts, etc.) But it's less well-known that some women are now being denied healthcare coverage because insurance companies are wary of new insured clients who may become pregnant and thus charge them for maternity care.
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Yea! We'll be dancing in the streets if this passes!
Come on people -- finally the dems are cohesive enough to pass this health care bill with a public option. That's progress. If anyone can revamp the health care system it's this administration! We the people need to understand that the US Constitution was signed with a veil of secrecy...and it took four months of debate before finally it was signed and there were three who chose not to buy in. Compromise is what it took. Both sides had to give and take to move this nation forward. Another four years of Obama is on the horizons. The health care issue is of complete urgency --
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No fact on your side? Make it about the people.
I note that "White trash of Tx" has a lot ot say about people, not nearly so much about the actual facts of the plan. Health care is a complex topic, but this is illustration of a simple facet: if the facts are not on your side, make the people who disagree the issue. The facts are not on the side of liberals here. They thought, wrongly, that the problem in 1993 was in how bit was sold. Instead, it's a fundamental disagreement with putting government in charge. The only thing keeping this afloat is an incompetent GOP leadership that doesn't get this, either.
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