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Bill Summaries and Analysis
Articles and Links
Public Opinion
- Rasmussen
- Americans feel that reducing the deficit is more important than health care reform
- 54% would rather have middle-class tax cuts then have new spending for Obamacare
- Gallup
- 61% of Americans say that individuals are responsible for the health care, not the government (89% of Republics felt this way)
- 42% of senior citizens oppose health care legislation, 32% support it
- Pew Research
- 34% generally favor health care proposals in Congress while 47% generally oppose
- 66% favor malpractice law suite reform while 27% oppose
- CBS/NY Times
- 62% favor public option like Medicare for all while 31% oppose (wildly different numbers than gallup or rasumussen)
- 37% understand the health care reforms under consideration in Congress, while 59% are confused
Latest Activity on the Bills
- No active bills at this time
- Congress starting over, possibly with some pieces from existing bills
- Brown gets elected, fillibuster-proof majority gone in Senate
Outside the Chambers
- Nelson and other Senators votes bought by federal subsidization of State medicaid plans
| Will Post as soon as something is put out | Waiting to see what comes! | Looking forward to reading 1,000 page mark-ups again. | |
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| Government Subsidized |
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| Fair Competition |
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| Prevents Exclusions for Preexisting conditions |
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| Lifetime limit on coverage |
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| Changes to Private Insurance |
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| Changes to Medicare and Medicare Advantage |
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| Other Changes |
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| New Programs and Beurocracies |
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Congressional Correspondence
I write my Representatives and Senators on a regular basis. I received this today, 10-21-09, in response to a letter I wrote to hear almost two months ago. It’s obviously a form response, especially since her staff member couldn’t even be bothered to cut-and-paste the entirety of the form letter.. they cropped-off the top. Note that she stuffs in her response on cap-and-trade as well.
