CBO Score? Check. Bill Online For 72 Hours? Check. No Excuses To Vote Against House Healthcare Bill.
The House is expected to vote on comprehensive health care reform Saturday. And conservatives have no excuse for voting against it. Their main concerns have been addressed.
Conservatives have continually complained that committee votes occurred without full cost estimates from the Congressional Budget Office. They argued we should not blindly approve legislation that is likely to increase the budget deficit.
Now, the final House bill has been scored by the CBO, and it shows that the bill would reduce the budget deficit. It would cut the deficit more than the Republican alternative that CBO found wouldn't even increase the percentage of Americans with health insurance.
So if cutting the deficit is your concern, you would vote for Speaker Pelosi's bill.
Conservatives have also complained that the congressional leadership hasn't been providing the full text of bills online for the public to review 72 hours before a vote.
On Tuesday, Speaker Pelosi did just that. Seventy-two hours will have passed before Saturday's expected vote.
So if you were concerned that something insidious was being slipped into the fine print at the last minute, now you have no reason for concern.
However, I have yet to hear a single conservative critic give credit where credit is due, let alone announce that since these concerns have been addressed, conservatives can now happily support the legislation.
Could it be that conservatives only like citing CBO data when it serves their immediate political interest?
Could it be that conservatives only wanted the extra time for last ditch obstructionist tactics?
I suppose we have 48 hours to find out.
Originally posted at OurFuture.org
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Conservatives have no reason to pass a health care reform to help the american folks. Their idea of reform is to give tax credits to folks, keep competition away from insurance companies, let the free market rule, and give tax cuts. They complain they were not brought in on the discussion, they complain that none of their ideas were accepted so what do they do - Obama is Hitler, a socialist, a fascist, a racist. The govern't doesn't know how to run anything - leave my medicare alone.
MSM let these conservatives talk, talk, tie, distort, misinform the people to instill fear to keep the status quo going.
The dems/Obama need to pass what ever bills they think would improve the economy, health care, energy for they will get blamed if they do or they don't. So get blamed for doing what they think is best and something will workout for all of us. They got to take the chance.
If the Republicans were serious about reforming health care wouldn't they have done it before now, wouldn't they have a comprehensive bill ready to present and discuss, 16 years ago they lynched Ms Hillary and since then have done nothing to reform health care cost, it is a known fact that there is upwards of $800B in waste and fraud, per year, and even though they have had control of the legislation they have done nothing but made it illegal to negotiate for lower drug prices, they want tort reform, 38 states already have tort reform, 12 more going to make that big oa a difference, they want to open up the markets, to who, the same insurers are in ALL the states, who do they want the merkets opened up to, the Republicans have no intention of agreeing to anything
women get screwed again by a bunch of rich males.
Check.
Nope i see no reason to ob
The amendment does not change anything that is current law.
A woman was in charge. Wonder why she sold women out?
The House is expected to vote on comprehensive health care reform Saturday. And conservatives have no excuse for voting against it. Their main concerns have been addressed.
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If the above statement is true and the healthcare bill can stand on its own under scrutiny then why not post the bill online for 72 hours.
What is the real concern against posting the bill for all to read. Is there language that would benefit some groups of Americans over others like lawyers.
If we are are stopped for a traffic violation will we have to show driver's license, proof of car insurance and PROOF OF HEALTH INSURANCE.
International Airports: Will visitors to our country have to show proof of insurace that will cover American medical bills or will we fine them and send them home
CBO scoring is not always that accurate, Especially when changing tax policy. They almost always over estimate revenue when tax rates increase, and almost always under estimate revenue when tax rates decrease.
The bill is over 1900 pages, and there are reports that people will go to jail if they buy health insurance. There is no way anyone could read the entire bill in 72 hours. Any one who votes for such a huge bill should be impeached, as it over complicates the issue, and only helps attorney's.
Here's a reason not to vote for it: It's really a terrible bill. It may well be worse than nothing and it's CERTAINLY worse than we need.
o can you name one specific provision in the bill you have a problem with.
"a lie repeated often enough becomes the truth"
glenn beck
information czar fox news
the view 5/20/09
The Republicans were always going to vote no, no matter what. (I think the president just said it himself, but I have not read the article yet)
So why do we have a public option open to almost nobody? We took out a real public option that actually increased the cost of the bill, and it was the conservative democrats that demanded those cost increases.
Why have we compromised to the corporations so much?
Welcome to the blue dog disaster.
This bill has some fine achievements, but is it worth it?
When this bill fails to lower costs, which it almost certainly will, guess who is coming home to roost?
This president was so afraid of losing short term GDP and job losses, that he folded to the very industries that put us in this position, and now wants to claim victory.
By the way, 90% of Americans will now be forced to pay private profit margins as a part of citizenship, with no choice of choosing a public system void of heavy profit margins and huge salaries and bonuses.
It is hard to take this position as a proud Progressive Democrat that deeply supports this President, but our compromise here has shown weakness that will certainly be taken advantage of in every reform that follows.
I take it back. I think I understand what they were doing, but the language still has to get passed the Senate, and I don't know that it will.
They seem to have put a ton on simple failure triggers into the bill that will allow a whole lot more people to get into the exchange then even the CBO recognized. Not sure how they got away with this, but it's OK with me.
I should have known better than to trust the CBO. We better hope the language survives the Senate.
The Republicans have no intention of supporting this legislation. Their only agenda is to impede any progress, any project or any legislation that will once again put them on the wrong side of history!
A few things conservatives have opposed:
Public education
The national park system
Food safety
The breakup of monopolies
The Homestead Act
Land grant universities
Rural electrification
Women’s suffrage
The abolition of child labor
The eight hour workday
The minimum wage
Social Security
Equal rights and pay for women
Voting rights for minorities and the poor
Cleaning up our air, our water, and toxic dump sites
Consumer product safety
Medicare and Medicaid
Who do they represent again?
To your last 2 questions in the article: well, duh?!
(Have the Repubs, as a minority party, ever done anything but obstruct for the sake of politics and damn the consequences?)
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