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Can CBO News Boost the Public Option?

We’ve been hearing for quite awhile now that adding a public option to healthcare reform would break the bank. “More than a trillion dollars!!!” lawmakers screamed. And many of them were Democrats. Now comes word that a preliminary estimate from the Congressional Budget Office puts the cost of a House Democratic bill with a public [...]

October 21st, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Broadcasting, Congress, Health, Legal, Media, Money, News, Politics, Politics and Health, US | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Senate Committee Vote on Healthcare- A Victory?

My first instinct is to say no, no, no (with apologies to Amy Winehouse). That’s because the bill that passed the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday didn’t contain a public option. We keep being told that it could be negotiated as different bills come together, but there doesn’t seem to be the guts among Democrats to [...]

October 14th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Business, Congress, Health, Legal, Media, News, Politics and Health, US | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Public Option Punked? And By Whom?

So the Senate Finance Committee decided to vote no on two proposals that would have put a public option in their versions of a healthcare reform bill. Both proposals, one by Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and the other, from Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, went down to defeat because of the treachery [...]

September 30th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Business, Congress, Health, Legal, News, Politics, Politics and Health, US | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
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