Here's Mike Enzi:
We still have several areas where we haven't been able to come to a consensus. No deal is at hand and substantive issues, big and small, remain under discussion and need to be resolved. We need to keep working together.I will need to see complete language and a final estimate from the Congressional Budget Office before I can agree to any health care reform bill.
I also need commitments from Senator Reid and Speaker Pelosi, as well as the Administration, that the bipartisan agreements reached in the Finance Committee will survive in a final bill that goes to the President.
With this arrogant and laughably absurd statement (we will only consider exactly what I agree to and no more), Mike Enzi has finally made clear what a lot of us have been saying to Max Baucus all along: the Republicans are never going to deal in good faith, and this idea of a bipartisan bill is not going to happen. Democrats should move quickly now to pass a bill out of committee, and then go to the floor with a Democratic bill, and bone-crunching party discipline should be applied to get us past a filibuster attempt. It is time to move forward with a bill, end of story.
This is a sign of great progress, obviously these guys have Learned The Lesson about NOT reading things before they sign off on it (ie. The Patriot Act).
Glad to finally see these people take a "real" interest in doing their jobs, this sort of "in-depth" approach sure would have made a difference in the Bush years.
Well said.
This must be repeated till the voters get it.
The conservatives are for the elite dominating the 99%.
Always have been, always will be.
Any conservative noises to the contrary are deception.
And after the disasterous and incompetent job performance of Repub prez Bush and a Repub controlled Congress up until mere months ago, who ran the country and economy into the ground and caused the worst recession since the Great Depression, I'd say that it's been proved that conservatives don't know best.
It will take more than 7 months to determine whether what the Dems are doing is considered successful.
You should be ashamed by what your party did to our country during the Bush administration.
What conservatism did is the PROBLEM, not the solution.
Miles White - Abbott - $17,395.00 per hour
Fred Hassan - Schering-Plough - $15,677.00 per hour
Bill Weldon - Johnson & Johnson - $13,022.00 per hour
The top ten insurance executives earned $85.6 million in 2008. The top three:
Ron Williams - Aetna - $12,656.00 per hour
H. Edward Hanway - CIGNA - $6,373.00 per hour
Angela Braly - WellPoint - $5,127.00
In case you are a doctor, and your pay is dependent upon your patient's outcome, you will more likely strive to prescribe the best medicine for your patient, let alone avoiding unnecessary cares, and hope your patient will feel better as quickly as possible.
I share the opinion that only a strong public option will be capable of getting the premium inflation under control.
Thank You !
Should he be able to dictate healthcare for the whole country?