Pelosi To Bring Robust Public Option To Floor

[ind_thinker2]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has chosen to put the public option favored by the liberal wing of her party in the healthcare bill that goes to the House floor, pending agreement later Tuesday night by the full caucus, according to two House sources. Leaders are planning to roll out the bill next week, and are hoping to vote the first week in November.

The plan, called the "robust" option or "Medicare Plus 5" in the jargon that has emerged on Capitol Hill, ties provider reimbursement rates to Medicare, adding 5 percent.(...)

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http://www.openleft.com/diary/15626/pelosi-to-bring-robust-public-option-to-floor



Health Care Merger Process Calendar (UPDATE)


http://www.openleft.com/diary/15622/health-care-merger-process-calendar

[Kdillard]

1. Go Nancy. Criticize her all you want but when it comes down

to it she acttually gets stuff done.

[ind_thinker2]

2. Conrad on Faux said, he will never support it

I guess Opt Out is a compromise!

[Thrill]

3. He doesn't have to support. Just vote for cloture.

All we need is for the President to get him to vote for cloture. Bernie Sanders said this today.

[PopSixSquish]

4. Well Done Madam Speaker, Well Done

:toast:

Come on Harry, she's making you look really bad...

[Autumn]

5. Good job Nancy, it's

easy to do the right thing. K/R

[jefferson_dem]

6. More here -

A preliminary analysis from CBO may have sealed the deal. Speaker Nancy Pelosi is preparing to move ahead with a "robust" public option--one that reimburses hospitals and providers at Medicare rates, plus five percent--in the House's health care bill. She is briefing her caucus about the plan's savings tonight, and, pending the approval of a sufficient majority of members, will adopt the measure as part of the complete reform package.

The analysis finds the reconstituted House proposal to be deficit neutral, and require about $870 billion in new spending, over ten years.

The bill remains nominally more expensive than the Senate Finance Committee proposal, but would cover 96 percent of all Americans, providing greater bang for each federal dollar spent. And, aides note, the bill that comes to the floor of the Senate will be a hybrid of the Finance and more expensive HELP Committee bills, so the price is expected to rise.

The move is sure to make progressives ecstatic, and puts Senate leaders, who have been unable to reach any decisions about a public option in their own bill, in an uncomfortable position.

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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/pelosi-prepares-to-move-ahead-with-robust-public-option.php

[vaberella]

9. Nancy is the like the ultimate Woman!!! She needs to be Wonder Woman.

Thanks JD for the info. Kiss her ass Reid. Hah!! Go Nancy and of course the House. Ugh, the Senate is like my nightmare though.

[Clio the Leo]

7. Know your place Nancy!!!!

Running the Congress! Fighting for the American people!!!! GO GET 'EM!!!!!!!!

[vaberella]

8. I LOVE YOU NANCY!!! I'm her total fangirl.

I suffered through countless months of people bashing my girl to oblivion. Left and right someone had something negative to say. When the CIA claimed she lied, so many people here were ready to string her up and have her put on trial. I heard what she had to say and believed her. Then she was proved right. She's the best bet we got and she most definitely deserved her place as the third most powerful person in the US.

I love her!!!