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Pelosi: House Bill Will Include Public Health Insurance Option

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Pelosi: House Bill Will Include Public Health Insurance Option


House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters at a Thursday briefing that she was glad to see the Senate making progress on its version of health care reform but she emphasized that the House plan would look markedly different - by including a public option.

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By including a public health insurance option in the House version, Pelosi will set up a confrontation between the House and the Senate when they meet in conference committee to hash out the differences between the two bills.

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Welcome news for me ! I have just been watching and hoping all the relevant committees clear the bills, the House and Senate each votes, then we get a good bill out of conference.


Are conference committee reports subject to filibuster, does anybody know? Or is that straight majority? Actually, I have been thinking a possible 'reconciliation' process only applies to a Senate bill vote, but perhaps it is the conference report that also potentially will use the reconciliation process?
 
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This is going to be an ugly next 20 years if they utilize reconciliation for a Health Care Reform bill which is so boldly and greatly bending the borders of even a semi-reasonable reading of what reconciliation is meant to be used for. If the Democrats go forward with using that method expect to see it used for anything and everything that is highly contested and has in any way, shape, or form some kind of spending attached to it. I sincerely hope it can't be used, but imagine it can.

Also, I'm not so sure if Pelosi's thought that a public option version is going to clear the House. Its likely, but I wouldn't call it a gimmie.
 
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Bill Frist, former republican senate majority leader, disagrees with you regarding the use of reconciliation for health care reform. It's said it's both legal and ethical to use it thus.


btw, do you know if a conference report is a standard majority vote, or can that be filibustered (if it's not under the reconciliation process)?
 
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Screw these wimpy democrats.

Since even the watered-down Baucus bill couldn't get repub support, I say just put forward the best democrat plan possible, and if it can't pass, fine.

Eventually we're going to get nationalized HC, it's just a matter of how many people go bankrupt or die before the conservatives wake the hell up.
 
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There have been rumors that the plan is to include a public option in the House bill where it can pass, and keep it out of the Senate version where it would not pass, and then include it in the conference version to kinda sneak it by. This would allow "blue dogs" to say they voted against a public option, but still get it passed. Personally, I don't think this is a good idea.

Jackalope, according to Wiki, yes on filibuster of the conference report.
 
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Bill Frist, former republican senate majority leader, disagrees with you regarding the use of reconciliation for health care reform. It's said it's both legal and ethical to use it thus.


btw, do you know if a conference report is a standard majority vote, or can that be filibustered (if it's not under the reconciliation process)?

I prefer Newt's take on reconciliation:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8w77h3eVeY"]YouTube - Newt: Democrats Will "Rebel" If They Don't Get Their Way[/ame]
 
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I prefer Newt's take on reconciliation

lolz, funny how Newt thinks a majority vote of 51 is "ramming something through". :doh
 
Health Insurance tax pay is a simple way to keep u all healthy living,maybe
10 percent of your wages,or what ever,at lest u dont half to worry about going to the doctor and pay all kinds of money that they charge you,u know where u stand. Give it a try.

mikeey
 
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lolz, funny how Newt thinks a majority vote of 51 is "ramming something through". :doh

It is in the United States.
 
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It is in the United States.

lol wut?

Bills pass with 51 votes all the time.
 
Seems Nancy isn't listening....

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Do we have to bring guns next time?
 
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lol wut?

Bills pass with 51 votes all the time.

Not in the Senate though, which was his point.
 
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Not in the Senate though, which was his point.

Yes they do, which was my point.
 
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Yes they do, which was my point.

Not when there's a strong objection from 40 Senators, which is the point that everyone else in this thread understands.
 
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Yes they do, which was my point.

They can, but it is not common.
 
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Not when there's a strong objection from 40 Senators, which is the point that everyone else in this thread understands.

You don't understand...
I want to see the republican senators holding up HC reform for Americans by filibustering it for weeks and months on end ....
 
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lol wut?

Bills pass with 51 votes all the time.

What I mean is, the United States is so partisan that 51 votes is a crushing majority win, even if it the bare minimum to get through the Senate.
 
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I wish they would just throw it all out and pass Single Payer through reconciliation. Why wait for ages to get a more progressive congress and get it done? It's time.
 
Seems Nancy isn't listening....

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Do we have to bring guns next time?

Those people disagree with some 70% of the rest of the country. I'm not sure what your point is.
 
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