Dec 9, 2009 12:42pm
Harry Reid’s Latest Moves
EmailNeed to catch up on the state of play when it comes to health care reform?
Here you go…
Democrats in the Senate, led by Majority Leader Harry Reid, are working towards an alternative to the so called public option. In order to bring in the more moderate members of the party there is talk of two things. First, expanding Medicare to people 55 years old and up. They could buy Medicare insurance at a slightly higher rate than what seniors pay. Secondly, expanding the same program that federal employees use to get their insurance. The federal employee program would be opened up to everyday citizens. That program buys insurance from private insurers using a federal office to negotiate the rates. Those are the highlights. Stay tuned.
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Posted by: Huh | December 9, 2009, 1:35 pm 1:35 pm
There’s no way to pay for medicare for people in their ’50′s.
Opening up the fed system to the public, is a much better option.
Posted by: Rick McDaniel | December 9, 2009, 1:53 pm 1:53 pm
Harry acts and speaks like a “weak sister” how did he ever get elected? And how did he get to be majority leader?
He doesn’t fit the mold of a Nevadan, shouldn’t a Nevadan be a man’s man instead of such a wimp?
Whatever those answers may be Harry Reid is dangerous and is poised to do this nation much harm with ObamaCare. It is a spending nightmare with page after page of hidden government tentacles which will touch every aspect of our lives to say nothing of how it helps to double an already unresolvable national debt!
Interestingly with all the rush, the bill provides no healthcare until 2014. i guess the rush is to get the medicare cuts and taxes rolling as early as possible!
OBAMA-PELOSI-REED: THE AXIS OF TAXES!
Posted by: Ed Taylor | December 9, 2009, 2:14 pm 2:14 pm
The federal employee program has great bargaining power and the best insurance.
The government could do what it does best; and the private insurance people could do their thing.
While they are at it, they need to tweak some insurance rules about excluding people or charging them a ski-high price that nobody can afford.
Anything about contribution reform?
Our politicians still need to get out of the pocket of insurance companies and the health care industry.
A good leader would address campaign contribution reform.
Posted by: ddg | December 9, 2009, 2:30 pm 2:30 pm
This is so amazing, you criticize Harry Reid and you don’t know diddley squat what anything is about yet. Did it ever occur to you to just listen first and find out what the new Medical offer is and then make an intelligent decision? You are all so willing to be negative. Shape up dummy…
Posted by: Sharon | December 9, 2009, 2:39 pm 2:39 pm
Sharon. Anybody who would reference anybody agaist this this bill to be against slavery is an idiot. How dare he minimize slavery to health insurance costs needs to be voted out of office. Maybe if you had to experience being a slave you would feel differently about him. I can understand him trying to use SCARE tactics to try to get his bill passed but he has no compassion to the people thyat had to endure slavery!
Posted by: Dante | December 9, 2009, 3:17 pm 3:17 pm
If replacing the public option makes it now so simple and helpful why the over 2000 pages and over 20 pounds of paper? Come clean Harry is there more than a tad of special interest money tucked into this mess?
It seems to me that most of the problems described to get this mess thus far could be resolved by the final thought of letting others buy into your healthcare plan. That my friend negates the need for the rest of the junk in your bill. Likewise it negates the need for all the new government agencies and czars to meddle in our lives.
Breaking news indicates the part a convicted felon (Robert Creamer) played in designing the framework you are following to implement this catastrophe.
“Progressive Agenda for Structural Change,” which includes a ten-point plan for foisting universal health care on the American people in 2009:
*“We must create a national consensus that health care is a right, not a commodity; and that government must guarantee that right.”
*“We must create a national consensus that the health care system is in crisis.”
*“Our messaging program over the next two years should focus heavily on reducing the credibility of the health insurance industry and focusing on the failure of private health insurance.”
*“We need to systematically forge relationships with large sectors of the business/employer community.”
*“We need to convince political leaders that they owe their elections, at least in part, to the groundswell of support of [sic] universal health care, and that they face political peril if they fail to deliver on universal health care in 2009.”
*“We need not agree in advance on the components of a plan, but we must foster a process that can ultimately yield consensus.”
*“Over the next two years, we must design and organize a massive national field program.”
*“We must focus especially on the mobilization of the labor movement and the faith community.”
*”We must systematically leverage the connections and resources of a massive array of institutions and organizations of all types.”
*“To be successful, we must put in place commitments for hundreds of millions of dollars to be used to finance paid communications and mobilization once the battle is joined.”
Creamer adds: “To win we must not just generate understanding, but emotion—fear, revulsion, anger, disgust.”
Posted by: Ed Taylor | December 9, 2009, 7:41 pm 7:41 pm
The rush for the supposed healthcare reform is that it has to be finished before the 2010 elections; the Democrats in the Senate know they will no longer have the 60 votes to push anything through. Obama won’t care because he thinks he can con the voters by 2012. Reid doesn’t care because he’s old and he can retire and still act like a big man.
Posted by: grey0066 | December 9, 2009, 8:15 pm 8:15 pm
Give ‘em hell, Harry!!! Who-HOOOOOO!
Posted by: sdfdsw | December 9, 2009, 9:04 pm 9:04 pm
In this whole debate on health care, the real question is- How much are YOU willing to spend out of your own pocket so that your neighbor has free health care. The reality is this- if you have a job and work for a living- you WILL be paying for someone in addition to yourself.
Posted by: jake | December 10, 2009, 2:51 am 2:51 am
Great!
Posted by: Goji | December 10, 2009, 11:07 am 11:07 am
It is going to be costly, socialistic and it will be flawed as is everything associated with Government entities. Some people will be left out, some will pay a lot more. Right now it’s a mess. We do not know what the bill has in store for us. I think we should opt out of paying for abortions. We keep hearing news about this new medical care but are not given any pertinent information. I want to know more about it.
Posted by: Sharon | December 14, 2009, 2:50 pm 2:50 pm