Senate Finance Committee Votes Against Government-Run Health Insurance Plan 
trzaska2000 Send a noteboard - 29/09/2009 09:08:40 PM
trzaska2000 Send a noteboard - 29/09/2009 09:08:40 PM
Big-time ass kicking:
In a decisive vote that could forecast the demise of a proposed government health insurance plan, the Senate Finance Committee voted Tuesday against creating a "public option" that would compete with private companies.
The 15-to-8 vote, which followed several hours of debate, was a defeat for liberal Democrats who view government-sponsored insurance for the middle class as a key component of President Obama's health care overhaul.
Five Democrats, including Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., joined all 10 committee Republicans to defeat a measure proposed by Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia.
The vote followed warnings by the Finance Committee's top Republicans that creating a government-run health insurance program would crush private companies.
Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, sparred with Democrats on the Senate floor over the necessity of a public plan -- with Grassley saying lawmakers shouldn't take advantage of the shortcomings in the health care system to "denigrate" American health care.
In a decisive vote that could forecast the demise of a proposed government health insurance plan, the Senate Finance Committee voted Tuesday against creating a "public option" that would compete with private companies.
The 15-to-8 vote, which followed several hours of debate, was a defeat for liberal Democrats who view government-sponsored insurance for the middle class as a key component of President Obama's health care overhaul.
Five Democrats, including Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., joined all 10 committee Republicans to defeat a measure proposed by Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia.
The vote followed warnings by the Finance Committee's top Republicans that creating a government-run health insurance program would crush private companies.
Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, sparred with Democrats on the Senate floor over the necessity of a public plan -- with Grassley saying lawmakers shouldn't take advantage of the shortcomings in the health care system to "denigrate" American health care.
*MySmiley*
Senate Finance Committee Votes Against Government-Run Health Insurance Plan
- 29/09/2009 09:08:40 PM
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- 29/09/2009 09:08:40 PM
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I just hope this doesn't squash all health-care reform attempts
- 29/09/2009 09:12:15 PM
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It definitely needs work, but not scrapped.....
- 29/09/2009 09:16:32 PM
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Opinion polls with health care have huge swings depending on how it's phrased
- 29/09/2009 09:28:28 PM
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Polls are horrid evidence in my mind
- 29/09/2009 09:32:58 PM
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Re: Polls are horrid evidence in my mind
- 29/09/2009 10:12:26 PM
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*NM*
Not that I totally disagree with you, but that being said
- 29/09/2009 10:29:13 PM
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Re: Not that I totally disagree with you, but that being said
- 29/09/2009 11:21:21 PM
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Re: Not that I totally disagree with you, but that being said
- 29/09/2009 11:40:42 PM
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his statements on health care are precisely my point, but much more well stated. *NM*
- 29/09/2009 11:54:29 PM
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Difference is that the law is subject to more checks and balances than the whims of a CEO
- 29/09/2009 11:44:58 PM
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Re: Difference is that the law is subject to more checks and balances than the whims of a CEO
- 30/09/2009 12:28:36 AM
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that the private sector has a long history of abusing both customer and employee *NM*
- 30/09/2009 03:46:03 AM
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That's indisbutable
- 30/09/2009 05:55:45 PM
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It doesn't work at all
- 30/09/2009 04:27:44 AM
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i have yet to see any evidence of malpractice insurance being a driving cost of health care
- 30/09/2009 05:27:34 AM
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When the malpractice insurance can cost well over $100k a year of course it effects the costs.
- 30/09/2009 06:21:29 AM
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it's not THAT they pay malpractice
- 30/09/2009 02:00:04 PM
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but doctors are *required* to buy malpractice insurance
- 30/09/2009 04:13:08 PM
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that's completely moot to the situation malpractice insurance causes.
- 30/09/2009 04:21:42 PM
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hooray, we're going to continue in mediocrity when it comes to our health
- 29/09/2009 10:15:00 PM
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That is a decade old and horribly discredited citation
- 29/09/2009 11:46:51 PM
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regardless, we still spend a lot more on health care while having too many uncovered people
- 29/09/2009 11:56:24 PM
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My objection, in this context, is strictly about references
- 30/09/2009 12:13:40 AM
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i understand your point about the reference
- 30/09/2009 12:54:25 AM
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Re: i understand your point about the reference
- 30/09/2009 01:15:30 AM
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Re: i understand your point about the reference
- 30/09/2009 12:24:45 PM
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Re: i understand your point about the reference
- 30/09/2009 06:29:09 PM
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Re: i understand your point about the reference
- 30/09/2009 10:57:36 PM
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Interesting...
- 01/10/2009 12:09:35 AM
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Hooray! The government isn't going to get directly involved and make HC even worse! *NM*
- 30/09/2009 01:03:50 AM
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*NM*