Senate Bill is Going to Drive the Process

[Winter_123]

Wow, this is a parliamentary nightmare.

Apparently the inside baseball goal now is to use Reid's Senate Bill (details unknown) as the core of the health reform bill to be reviewed in the Senate, versus reviewing the House Bill and amending it when it is in the Senate.

Problem is, the Constitution requires bills that have revenue and tax implications to be introduced in the House. ie. cannot be introduced in the Senate and then sent back to the House for review.

Soo.......it looks like the gameplan is to put the House Bill on the Senate floor for debate and then amend it by replacing most of the House Bill language with the language of the Senate Bill so that it looks like an amended House Bill rather than a bill coming from the Senate.

You need a scorecard to tell the players here. One of the obvious implications is that the bill that was passed by the House will no longer be the bill passed by the house so who knows what has been approved by the house and what hasnt when that happens. It will still need to go through conference committee and then back to the house again. No doubt a lot of blood will flow along the way.

Change you can believe in.

Senate Moves Toward Kicking Off Health Care Reform Debate - California Healthline

 

[JMO Fan]

All that work just to preserve Pelosi's PR fantasy.

 

[somarco]

Even Princess Pelosi deserves to have some fantasies . . .

 

[motoxxx]

I have my own fantasies about Pelosi and believe me, they aren't the sexual kind! My favorite one involves her, Al Gore, and a hungry polar bear, but I digress.

Hey, I had heard somewhere that the CEO of Aetna was a big Obama supporter and donator and that the hope for him was that Aetna would become the third party administrator of the Barry Care. Has anyone else heard about that?

 

[taterpeeler]

Aetna cant 3rd party addmin. an oil change..... always screwing the pooch on admin stuff with my clients

 

[ins.dave]

Wow, this is a parliamentary nightmare.

Apparently the inside baseball goal now is to use Reid's Senate Bill (details unknown) as the core of the health reform bill to be reviewed in the Senate, versus reviewing the House Bill and amending it when it is in the Senate.

Problem is, the Constitution requires bills that have revenue and tax implications to be introduced in the House. ie. cannot be introduced in the Senate and then sent back to the House for review.

Soo.......it looks like the gameplan is to put the House Bill on the Senate floor for debate and then amend it by replacing most of the House Bill language with the language of the Senate Bill so that it looks like an amended House Bill rather than a bill coming from the Senate.

You need a scorecard to tell the players here. One of the obvious implications is that the bill that was passed by the House will no longer be the bill passed by the house so who knows what has been approved by the house and what hasnt when that happens. It will still need to go through conference committee and then back to the house again. No doubt a lot of blood will flow along the way.

Change you can believe in.

Senate Moves Toward Kicking Off Health Care Reform Debate - California Healthline

It just dawned on my as to why you apparently have a thing for black chicks ...
None of them live in Maine?
Absence doth make the heart grow founder?

 

[agentinsure]

I'll bet every insurer supported Obama, have you seen their stock prices lately? Up, up and away. I dont think they were ever out of the loop, just let themselves be villified a little by the media to bring about this coup to capture 1/6 of the economy. Not sure where this leaves us independent flunkys who have to grovel at their doorsteps for scraps but even Wellcare has rebounded nicely to a 52 week high. Go figure