edited by: Mike Landfair,
Oregon Editor
John Podesta:
Since Joe Lieberman demanded stripping the public option and Medicare buy-in provisions from the merged Senate bill, some strong progressives like Howard Deanhave argued that without a public option or a Medicare buy-in provision, the bill is a giveaway to private insurers and should be killed. Other progressive leaders like [...]
It's looking like the Senate health care reform bill won't have either a public option or Medicare buy-in for people under 65.
That's disturbing. It sure isn't what I and other progressives expected when Obama was elected president and the Democrats won solid majorities in both houses of Congress.
I [...]
Last night, Senator Ron Wyden spoke with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow about the latest developments in the health care debate - including opposition to the Medicare buy-in, insurance reforms, his proposal for a tax on health insurance to reduce premiums, and the prospects for using reconciliation to push health reform through [...]
Haven't seen this come up in the OR blogosphere, although HuffingtonPost had a pretty up-front treatment of it and the Register Guard repeated the comments in a piece actually more about Ron Wyden--but while Joe Lieberman and Ben Nelson discuss the new reform mashup bill to be unacceptable [...]
by Jay McDonough
It seems like, at this point, the best case public option health care scenario to be passed by Congress would allow states to opt out and without the advantage of being able to negotiate for lower cost Medicare payments to providers.
So, it begs the question; can Congress pass [...]
Oh, yeah. Bring it on, health care reform.
This 61 year old is absolutely ready to give up his over-priced Regence Blue Cross of Oregon policy and jump to Medicare early, along with 30 million other Americans aged 55-64.
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