Everyone is reacting to a leak of the negotiations, and the WH confirmed that Boehner brought it to the table and the President included it, tentatively until the detail could be worked out, that is the part about protecting the most vulnerable and exempting key parts of the program. That's it. The fact still remains the President didn't make Boehner an offer he could accept.
There is no way that proposal passes the House, and evidently Boehner was also bluffing because he didn't include it in his own proposal.
Boehner Plan B does not include chained CPI? Take it off the table
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022040245
Obviously it wasn't a serious offer, and both sides were playing set up.
"The other thing is this: if you make use of others without letting them know as part of your negotiation quiver ie elders, disabled, etc then you do not have the right to celebrate until you have made amends, inform those whose fear served as your bargaining chip that it was just theatrics, and reward them for what you have put them through. "
Imagine how those excluded from the New Deal felt. Negotions always involve people's lives, and even positive movement will produce unhappy results. That happened with health care reform.
It happened when CHIP passed in the 1990, but that has been rectified since 2009 and with the health care law.
Obama Signs Children’s Health Insurance Bill
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In a major change, the bill allows states to cover certain legal immigrants — namely, children under 21 and pregnant women — as well as citizens.
Until now, legal immigrants have generally been barred from Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program for five years after they enter the United States. States will now be able to cover those immigrants without the five-year delay.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/us/politics/05health.html
Low-income state workers begin to gain access to Children’s Health Insurance Program
By Sarah Barr
At least six states have opened their Children’s Health Insurance Program to the kids of low-income state employees, an option that was prohibited until the passage of the 2010 health-care law.
This relatively small step has as its backdrop years of debate over the program, known as CHIP, including concerns that it encourages states — and consumers — to replace private insurance with taxpayer-subsidized coverage.
Now, as a result of the policy change, families of lower-income state workers who have struggled to pay for family coverage can qualify for the program. CHIP, which is jointly financed by the states and the federal government, provides coverage to the uninsured children of families who earn too much to qualify for Medicaid but cannot afford private insurance.
The federal government had closed that option to most states when CHIP was established in 1997, because of concerns that it might be an easy way for financially strapped states to shift the costs of some public-employee health benefits to the federal government. Federal employees were allowed to enroll their children.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/2011/11/04/gIQAeDvotM_story.htm
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