Health Care Reform has been resurrected like Lazarus from the grave. I suspect Anthem Blue Cross’s raising of health insurance premiums up to as much as 39% has been the catalyst.
The Daily Beast today displays the following:
The televised health-care summit President Obama will host Thursday is being billed as likely the last chance for the GOP to influence the legislation. The Obama administration said health-care proposals will be published on its website Monday and will likely be a melding of the House and Senate Democrats’ versions of the reform legislation. The summit has been hyped as a chance to break through partisan gridlock and listen to Republican ideas. But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Saturday that the final Democratic bill will be unveiled Monday evening, and that Democrats will finish up health care within the next 60 days using the budget reconciliation process, a procedure that requires a simple majority vote and would block a potential Republican filibuster. Republicans have decried reconciliation as a partisan move.
Maybe, just maybe, the Democratic leadership is about to cast off its timidity and going to move forward on health care reform. Thank you Anthem Blue Cross!
The White House will publish its updated healthcare proposals sometime tomorrow, Monday, so we can all see for ourselves what is being touted. Something that should have been done, I think, many months ago.
We can all, then see our elected representatives deal with the plan on live TV on C-SPAN when members of congress meet on Thursday. Now that is transparency!
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