One of the biggest fears I had with the health care reform bill was insurers coming up with creative accounting methods to circumvent the requirements that they spend 85% of premiums on health care related costs. Now that fear is becoming a reality: Some of the largest U.S. health insurers are changing their accounting practices […]
This is a very bad idea: (from TNR) According to a pair of senior Capitol Hill staffers, one from each chamber, House and Senate Democrats are “almost certain” to negotiate informally rather than convene a formal conference committee. Doing so would allow Democrats to avoid a series of procedural steps–not least among them, a series […]
And this headline here is perfect humor to ease the health care reform fatigue stress: Dick Cheney: HUMAN EVENTS’ Conservative of the Year Oh wait – let my get it all: Dick Cheney: HUMAN EVENTS’ Conservative of the Year by John R. Bolton There – that’s better. Needed that byline in there. Nothing like naming […]
Without the public option the Senate bill still will cost an additional $19 billion according to the much anticipated CBO report. Also premiums won’t go down with the removal of the public option, as some had been pushing: The CBO has concluded that, on average, premiums will be the same as they would have been […]
This is something me and a lot of the opposing factors to the latest HCR bill saw coming the other night when Democrats caved to Lieberman: Nelson’s key points: Asked if he would vote for cloture even if his initiative to restrict abortion were adopted, Nelson flatly said “no.” Nelson not only said a vote […]
Chuck Todd tweeted about a new WSJ/MSNBC poll that is to be released later today: That’s not good news for HCR at all.
There’s a lot of bitching by Senators about the cost of health care reform. For example: And on Sunday, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) echoed her colleague, telling “Fox News Sunday” that should the latest version of health care reform prove insufficient in bending the cost curve, she and others would “have to go back to […]