Pelosi’s Plan to Pass Health Care Reform
Despite President Obama’s recent rhetoric about reaching out to Republicans and getting their input on health care reform, a sneaky plan is underway to pass health care without any help from Republicans. Wendell Primus, the top health care adviser to Nancy Pelosi, believes it can be passed by Easter. If I’m understanding the complicated and tricky plan correctly, the House would pass the Senate bill, Obama would sign the Senate bill, then the House would pass another bill changing the Senate version. According to Anna Edney of CongressDaily,
House Speaker Pelosi’s top healthcare adviser today outlined a plan that would allow both chambers to make changes to the Senate healthcare overhaul before the overhaul becomes law.
Wendell Primus said the plan is to have President Obama sign the Senate bill before signing the legislation making the changes, even though Congress will approve them in reverse to satisfy skeptical House members who refuse to pass the Senate bill before changes are made.
“The trick in all of this is that the president would have to sign the Senate bill first, then the reconciliation bill second, and the reconciliation bill would trump the Senate bill,” Wendell Primus, told health policy experts gathered at the National Health Policy Conference hosted by AcademyHealth and Health Affairs.
Some have questioned whether rules would allow Congress to pass changes to a bill that is not yet law. House members have insisted both chambers approve the changes, which likely will go through the reconciliation process to require 51 votes rather than the 60-vote supermajority in the Senate, before they pass they Senate bill.
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Negotiators first must agree on changes.
The Senate parliamentarian still needs to weigh in, he added.
Despite all these complications, Primus said, lawmakers will be “very close to being done” with an overhaul by Easter recess.
The 2000 plus page health care bill does not appear to be dead as most of us had hoped. I’m not sure if this whole process can be pulled off or even if it is legal, but it does show how desperate Progressives like Pelosi are to have a government takeover of our health care system.
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Comments (6)
John Carey
February 11th, 2010 at 6:46 am
Liberty, thanks for post.
Many do think this bill is dead, but I’ve also been reading that they are trying to do some shady stuff to get something passed. They just want something passed to gett he foundation in place. We need to continue to write or call our representatives to let them know we’re still watching them.
Liberty
February 11th, 2010 at 7:10 am
I agree. We need to keep the pressure on. Progressives would love for us to sit back and think that we have won.
Karen
February 11th, 2010 at 10:41 am
What’s sad is that to Obama & his cohorts, legality, the constitution, and the will of the people are in the way of their thirst for power & control. Thank you, Liberty, for helping to get the word out about our devious and lying President.
Matt
February 11th, 2010 at 8:21 pm
If they do this, they’ll only seal their fate at the ballot box come November. Then, it will be repealed at some point.
theLibertyPen
February 11th, 2010 at 9:17 pm
This leathery face gargoyle makes me sick, and I doubt her constituents are smart enough to vote her out.
Cracked World
February 18th, 2010 at 11:08 pm
The way I heard it was that the liberals are going to pass the bill under the guise of several budget issues that only need a 51 vote majority.
Which ever way its underhanded and a clear trampling of the will of the people. Lets hope we deliver the message this fall. Only problem is an entitlement program this big will not be easily repealed once it’s been implemented; look at Social Security.
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