Health Care Reform
Bill Summaries and Analysis
Articles and Links
- Income, Education Levels Combine to Predict Health Problems
- Stupak language appears in new bill … sans Stupak
- Health Care Is Obama’s Gateway Drug
- Idaho Becomes 1st State to Make Obamacare Illegal
- Reid and Pelosi Working to Pass the Full Health Care Reform Bill Despite Voter Outrage
- Pelosi: House lacks votes to OK Senate health bill…
Public Opinion
- Rasmussen
- 56% Support Repeal of Health Care Law
- 57% Predict Health Care Plan Will Hurt The Economy
- 55% Say Congress Should Start Over On Health Care
- 43% Favor Health Care Plan, 53% Oppose
- 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
- 45% saying passage of law was a good thing, 49% a bad thing
- In U.S., 45% Favor, 48% Oppose Obama Healthcare Plan
- 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
- Reconciliation Amendment Published – See
- Our Summary and Analysis
- Congress considering multiple parliamentary tactics to pass health care: reconciliation and “deem and pass”
- Brown gets elected, fillibuster-proof majority gone in Senate
Outside the Chambers
- Obama cancels global trip again to coerce Senate into accepting the House reconciliation ammendments
- multiple versions of House fixes to Senate bill submitted to CBO to figure out how much more they cost
- Nelson and other Senators votes bought by federal subsidization of State medicaid plans
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.
