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Health Reform in the House
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Fact of the Day
H.R. 4872 would cut the deficit by $138 billion in the first 10 years, and by $1.2 trillion in the second 10 years, while extending the solvency of Medicare by 9 years and expanding health coverage to 32 million Americans, ensuring 95 percent of Americans have health insurance.
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At the Time This Daily Dose Was Sent, Insured Americans Had Paid a “Hidden Tax” of $52,588,124,681 since January 1, 2009 in Additional Premium Costs to Cover Care for the Uninsured.
Under the Microscope
GETTING CLOSE TO HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM
This afternoon the House Democratic Caucus will be meeting with President Obama on Capitol Hill along with Senate Majority Leader Reid regarding health insurance reform.
WOMEN & THE CURRENT HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
The Joint Economic Committee has an updated report on women and health care reform that it first prepared last summer. The report makes clear that the current health care system is serving both young and older women poorly and that the recession has made the situation worse.
Also read a HealthReform.gov report on Why the Current Health Insurance System Does Not Work for Women.
ORGANIZATIONS IN SUPPORT
Read the updated list of the over 350 organizations expressing support for health insurance reform. Today the American Hospital Association sent a letter of support for the health insurance reform legislation, adding their name to several other groups representing hospitals that have already come out in support.
Health Care Headlines
End In Sight, Health Care Battle Tilts Obama's Way
One by one, House Democratic fence-sitters began choosing sides Friday, and the long, turbulent struggle over landmark health care legislation tilted unmistakably in President Barack Obama's direction. [Associated Press, 3/19/2010]
Consumers Would See Benefits Soon After Enactment
For consumers, the vote on health-care legislation scheduled for Sunday could mean a slew of changes that would take effect within months. But the measure's biggest impact remains years away, and some of the benefits for consumers aren't assured of passage in the Senate. [Wall Street Journal, 3/20/2010]
Four Democrats Change Sides, Will Vote For Health-Care Bill
Democratic leaders persuaded four more House members Friday to support a landmark health-care bill after initially opposing it, but they still need votes from a pivotal bloc of lawmakers who remain concerned that the proposal would open the door for the federal funding of abortions. [Washington Post, 3/20/2010]
Democrats Woo Abortion Foes in Push for Health Bill
House Democratic leaders late Friday were exploring the possibility of a deal with abortion opponents that would clinch the final votes to pass major health care legislation, but they faced stiff resistance from lawmakers who support abortion rights. [New York Times, 3/20/2010]
Senate Democrats Will Release Letter Supporting Reconciliation
Senate Democratic leaders initially resisted publicly releasing a letter from their rank and file supporting the health care reconciliation bill, but they have now decided to release the letter, if not the names of those signing the letter. [Roll Call, 3/19/2010]
Boehner Says GOP May Lose Health Care Fight
House Minority Leader John Boehner (Ohio) used the weekly GOP radio address on Saturday to continue his party's attacks on Democrats over health care reform, accusing the majority of using strong-arm tactics and imploring the American people to help defeat the effort. [Roll Call, 3/20/2010]
EDITORIAL: Day of reckoning for health reform
As the vote nears on health care legislation, members of Congress need to ponder how history will view them. Will they try to save their jobs, or will they aspire to live up to the more courageous leaders who preceded them? The time is now to cast a vote for the ages. [Sacramento Bee, 3/20/2010]
EDITORIAL: Reform's Moment
The president, in a strong appeal to Congress, spoke of the need for national health care reform: “Comprehensive health insurance is an idea whose time has come in America,” he said.
[Louisville Courier-Journal, 3/20/2010]
EDITORIAL: Laying the foundation
The campaign for comprehensive healthcare reform reaches its make-or-break point Sunday, when the House could vote to send the Senate's proposal to the president's desk -- or to kill it. [L.A. Times, 3/20/2010]
OPINION: Why Democrats Are Fighting For a Republican Health Plan
By E.J. Dionne
Here is the ultimate paradox of the Great Health Care Showdown: Congress will divide along partisan lines to pass a Republican version of health care reform, and Republicans will vote against it.
[Washington Post, 3/20/2010]
OPINION: Saints Preserve Us
By Gail Collins
On Friday, as Democrats were flopping around madly over the upcoming vote on health care, Speaker Nancy Pelosi noted brightly that it was the feast of St. Joseph the Worker, “where we remember and pray to St. Joseph to benefit the workers of America. And that’s exactly what our health care bill will do.”
[New York Times, 3/20/2010]
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