Staffer: "We don't know yet."
Pelosi's Versailles
Office: (202) 225-4965
Pelosi's SF Office: (415) 556-4862
Well, well.
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Staffer: "We don't know yet."
Pelosi's Versailles
Office: (202) 225-4965
Pelosi's SF Office: (415) 556-4862
Well, well.
... keep the heat on!
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United States: $7290
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United Kingdom: $2992
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The text of HR676 (Medicare For All) as PDF (30 pages). The FAQ. Compare HR3200 with HR676.
Medicare for All would save $350 billion a year (study in New England Journal of Medicine).
In 2003, a young Illinois state senator named Barack Obama told an AFL-CIO meeting, "I am a proponent of a single-payer universal healthcare program*." -- Bill Moyers.
* Medicare For All.
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Well, Magic 8 Ball says yes
Couple of blogs have said the Weiner Amendment vote will be on Friday (the day before the vote on the full bill) after a solid 20 minutes to fully debate the issues.
http://www.davidswanson.org/node/2278
http://beavercountyblue.org/2009/11/04/s...
I don't expect to see anything come out of the CBO before the Friday vote (they've only had since August, what's the rush?). I'm assuming that if the CBO scoring was released, it'd make HR 676 look bad (since the CBO will look only at at the federal budgetary impact and not the cost savings at the national level). Soooo, wouldn't it have been in in Pelosi's (and Obama's) interest for the report to have been released months ago so they could point to the dismal CBO numbers as a evidence of just how unrealistic and "disruptive" a single payer plan would be?
It will be interesting to see what changes Weiner made to the HR 676 bill, there was talk months ago that he was trying to structure it to make it more to the CBO's liking. Jawbone reported here that the Conyers office said that Weiner was looking at using Dingell's perennial HR 15 bill as a model (funded with a 5% VAT).
http://www.correntewire.com/taking_hamsh...
So either the CBO scoring would show that the Weiner Amendment is a fiscal trainwreck, in which case Pelosi was foolish to bury it when it help make her case; or the CBO report would show that a revised Weiner Amendment is fiscally responsible, in which case Pelosi is gonna look very very bad. Even if she keeps the report buried through Friday, the issue won't be moot. Senator Sanders could adopt the revised Weiner Amendment language for his own single payer bill and threaten to join the GOP filibuster unless the CBO completes and releases the Weiner Amendment scoring.
Thanks for the info, beowulf
It wasn't as if I didn't look for it...
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi