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Nancy Pelosi Prepares Fake "Smaller" Health Care ProposalI say "fake" because I am very certain that this proposal is nothing but something that's supposed to sound all compromisey, while in fact being designed expressly to be unacceptable, to offer liberals the political cover to use reconciliation to pass the bill. An offer designed to be refused. "In a matter of days, we will have a proposal," Pelosi said, pointing to Obama's forthcoming bill. "It will be a much smaller proposal than we had in the House bill, because that's where we can gain consensus. But it will be big enough to put us on a path of affordable, quality health care for all Americans that holds insurance companies accountable." Supposedly malpractice reform and interstate competition for health insurance will be in there. Based on this -- "But it will be big enough to put us on a path of affordable, quality health care for all Americans that holds insurance companies accountable."
Is This the Reconciliation Bill? Rocks thinks so-- I'm thinking this is the Reconciliation Bill. Of course it will be smaller and all compromisey and stuff because all it will contain is the changes to the Senate Bill. Possibly, but from what I gather the reconciliation bill will have to make the Senate bill bigger in order to appease House liberals. Not smaller. Hmmmm... jdub thinks it might be the reconciliation measure, too. He suggests it will barely smaller than the current Senate bill, just to comply with reconciliation's mission of reducing the deficit: from what i understand, the new bill will have to have a smaller budget than the current version(s)... reconciliation can only be used to effect budget reduction, and those measures necessary to and inseperable from that budget reduction. Right, well, fine, cut the Cornhusker Kickback and the Louisiana Purchase and you have a nominally "smaller" bill. But -- another thing they have to do is buy off the unions by exempting them from the "Cadillac Tax." I figure that will cost more than these provisions give back. And even more than that if the Cadillac Tax is eliminated for everyone, not just union members and government employees, as Obama's last proposal specified. So.... if jdub is right, they'll have to fake up some more "savings" from elsewhere. Probably raid Medicare again. And More: Rocks replies: Ace by smaller I meant physically smaller. It won't be some huge bill. Hmm. Maybe. I bolded the part about it being "quite possibly" smaller in price because that suggests Rocks is right -- smaller in page count, and barely smaller (if at all) in costs.
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