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Health Care Reform

Public Opinion
  • Rasmussen
  • 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.

Senator Hagan Answers Conservative Daily News on Health Care

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