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12-22-2009, 02:01 PM #1AprilGuest
U.S. Voters Oppose Healthcare Plan By Wide Margin
U.S. Voters Oppose Healthcare Plan By Wide Margin
Voters Say 3-1 Plan Should Not Pay For Abortions
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
As the Senate prepares to vote on health care reform, American voters “mostly disapproveâ€
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12-22-2009, 02:04 PM #2AprilGuest
Rep. Waters: House liberals to put up tough public-option fight
By Tony Romm - 12/22/09 09:56 AM ET
One of the public option's most vocal supporters in the House on Monday stressed she and her colleagues would fight "as hard as we possibly can" to ensure its inclusion in the final healthcare bill.
The government plan is sure to be one of the most difficult debates to resolve once House and Senate lawmakers confer and combine their bills early next year. But Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) made clear last night that other liberal Democrats would not accept the Senate's decision to strip its bill of both the public option and a proposed expansion of Medicare.
"A lot of us will be fighting and encouraging our conferees to hold tight for the public option," she told MSNBC. "We haven't given up on that. That's extremely important to a lot of people — not just Democrats, but I mean Americans throughout this country.
"If we held to our position, it would certainly die in conference," Waters said, adding she was "hopeful" she could vote for the bill but ultimately had not read its most recent revisions.
The forthcoming conference committee to resolve differences between the House's and Senate's healthcare efforts is already shaping up to be a tough battle.
Some House Democrats still believe the chamber cannot pass a healthcare bill without a public option, while Senate Democrats insist that very provision — or any changes to their current proposal — could ultimately doom reform.
Much of the resulting frustration among liberal Democrats has since been directed toward Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson (D), whom many blame for the exclusion of the public option and the inclusion of tough abortion language.
Waters on Monday seemed to hint she shared that sentiment, and she specifically chided Nelson for walking away from the debate with a key Medicaid concession.
"When we see a senator like Sen. Nelson hold up a bill, and able to cut that kind of deal, it certainly makes us think that maybe we should fight harder also for our states," Waters said. "Of course we would like not to have our states have to pay their shares of Medicaid; of course we're in deficit here; many states are. Now he's got a spec deal, and some of us are not going to like that very much."
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing- ... ght?page=1
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12-22-2009, 02:05 PM #3AprilGuest
Real CHANGE IN 2010!!!!
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12-22-2009, 02:37 PM #4
It's that 37% that will always be on board with communism.
Work Harder Millions on Welfare Depend on You!
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12-22-2009, 02:44 PM #5
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12-22-2009, 03:46 PM #6AprilGuestOriginally Posted by jamesw62
It is the same with Amnesty for illegals the majority of Americans ARE VERY AGAINST IT, yet the government caters to the minority!!!
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