Majority Leader Harry Reid is having a difficult time piecing together a health-reform bill that will get 60 votes in the Senate because of his overreach in trying to create a health-care “system” that would be run out of Washington.We don’t have a health-care system now, but rather countless independent programs and entities. In trying to assemble them into a system, all of the … [Read more...] about Undone by Overreach
Undone by Overreach
Majority Leader Harry Reid is having a difficult time piecing together a health-reform bill that will get 60 votes in the Senate because of his overreach in trying to create a health-care “system” that would be run out of Washington.We don’t have a health-care system now, but rather countless independent programs and entities. In trying to assemble them into a system, all of the … [Read more...] about Undone by Overreach
Vapor Agreement
So the latest bright idea from the closed room meetings on Capitol Hill ... expand government-run health plans. Now that's creative! Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced that 10 Democratic senators met for a day and came up with this brilliant idea in their plans to transform one-sixth of our economy. But it is becoming clear that they produced nothing more than a vapor agreement and … [Read more...] about Vapor Agreement
More Nutty Ideas from the Senate
Faced with opposition among a few key Democrats to creating a new government health plan, the latest bright idea that Senate negotiators have come up with is to have the federal government’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) run a new national health plan.But it gets worse. OPM would negotiate terms with private insurers, and then create a network of new non-profit groups that don’t … [Read more...] about More Nutty Ideas from the Senate
More Nutty Ideas from the Senate
Faced with opposition among a few key Democrats to creating a new government health plan, the latest bright idea that Senate negotiators have come up with is to have the federal government’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) run a new national health plan.But it gets worse. OPM would negotiate terms with private insurers, and then create a network of new non-profit groups that don’t … [Read more...] about More Nutty Ideas from the Senate
Senate Health Care Reform Spells Trouble for Nebraska
Nebraska’s interests have become the nation’s interests as the health reform debate reaches a critical stage in Washington, D.C., and U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson is one of a handful of key players who will determine whether the legislation helps or harms the state and the nation.While some senators, such as Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu, have shown they are willing to sell their votes for … [Read more...] about Senate Health Care Reform Spells Trouble for Nebraska
Senate Health Care Reform Spells Trouble for Nebraska
Nebraska’s interests have become the nation’s interests as the health reform debate reaches a critical stage in Washington, D.C., and U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson is one of a handful of key players who will determine whether the legislation helps or harms the state and the nation.While some senators, such as Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu, have shown they are willing to sell their votes for … [Read more...] about Senate Health Care Reform Spells Trouble for Nebraska
Trying Times
Things are getting more, not less, difficult for Democrats as they try to meet their deadline of getting a health reform bill through the Senate before Christmas and to the president by the end of January. Just a few examples: Docs object: A coalition representing more than 240,000 physicians and surgeons, including the powerful California Medical Association, sent a letter to Sen. Reid … [Read more...] about Trying Times