The Week in Health Reform–Federal Legislative Overview
House and Senate Things were quiet last week in Washington due to the 30 plus inches of snow the area received. On Feb. 9 House leaders announced that due to the heavy snow in the area they would suspend votes in the House for the remainder of the week. Congress will not be in session this week due to the President’s Day recess and will reconvene the week of Feb. 22.
A separate compromise package of changes also passed in the House on Sunday and still needs to be approved by the Senate. The officials noted that the Senate cannot begin debate on the package before Obama signs on underlying Health Care bill.
“There will be no cooperation for the rest of this year,” McCain said in an interview in Arizona. “They have poisoned the well in what they have done and how they have done it.”
www.therenegadehealthshow.com – Yes, Mike Adams was in town this weekend at the Expo West… Today, Mike talks about gardening, health care reform, optimism and if you should stockpile food. This blog supports Jeux de grattage
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I’m a fan of the notion that the health care industry has gotten out of hand. The system, including the pharmaceutical industry, needs some kind of reform to become more available, more cost-friendly, more efficient, and as silly as it sounds, healthier. However, it’s for these reasons that I’m uneasy, as all Americans should be, with the current health care bill being muscled through the senate.
Democrats’ strategy for merging health care reform bills began to unravel under growing attacks Wednesday, including unexpected criticism from Colorado’s two Democratic senators.
Final negotiations on merging the bills began in earnest Wednesday as congressional leaders spent more than eight hours behind closed doors at the White House using a process that bypasses a formal conference committee and cuts out Republican participation.
They dug into a series of sticky issues that separate the two versions of the bill passed by the House and the Senate — including abortion, access to health insurance by illegal immigrants, and how to pay for the sweeping legislation, which will insure an estimated 37 million Americans over the next decade.
please rate? 5 stars and spread this around [making sure to mention my account llcoolpass ] At 6:25 is the magic moment to start watching… and 7:10 ….. I recorded this live on my computer, but I messed up a few minutes, but I caught the end, the important part of course JUST IN TIME. I played “O Fortuna” while they were voting and counting, and I played the “Soviet National Anthem” right as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi passed the bill with the strike of her gavel. This blog supports Jeux de grattage
