Thread: 3 Senators, Obama Secretly Write Health Bill

3 Senators, Obama Secretly Write Health Bill

Sunday, October 18, 2009 9:33 AM

When he was a presidential candidate, Barack Obama promised to make negotiations over healthcare reform an open and transparent process. Now that he's president, the reality is that most of the high-stakes work is being conducted by just three senators behind closed doors.

According to the Washington Post, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Sens. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., and Max Baucus, D-Mont., gather in Reid's office to hammer out a merger of competing bills before a Senate vote. The only other people allowed in the room are key aides and Obama's representatives on healthcare reform.

More than a year ago, Obama promised something entirely different.

"I'm going to have all the negotiations around a big table," he said at a campaign stop in Virginia, where he vowed to have reform talks "televised on C-SPAN, so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies."

The less-than-transparent nature of the reform process has Republicans angry.

"This bill is being written in the dark of night," House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, told the Post. "The president ought to keep his promise to the American people and open this process up."

Reid Cherlin, a White House spokesman, rejected Boehner's criticism in a statement to the Post. "The House and Senate have held scores of hearings on health insurance reform — as Congressman Boehner well knows — and at the White House we've held an unprecedented series of webcast meetings with key health care stakeholders to gather their input in a public forum."


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There is no health care crises. There are so many things I want to say to Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Dodd and others who try to ram crap down our throats without a care in the world. But it wouldnt be nice.
It would save money to focus dollars for health care to the less than 30 million who cant afford it or are denied coverage than to overhaul the entire health care industry by forcing over 350 million people to take one universal health care plan.
AND- STAY OUR OF MY PERSONAL BUSINESS. JUST THE THOUGHT OF A GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTH CARE PLAN MAKES ME FEEL VIOLATED.