Senators Set Timetable for Health Care Bills

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Get ready for government mandated and subsidized private insurance.
More pork for the very insurance companies that have created this mess.

Allowing private health insurance at the table is "Change We Can Believe In"?

...*cough* *bullshit*






April 20, 2009, 2:46 pm
Senators Set Timetable for Health Care Bills
By Robert Pear

The chairmen of two Senate committees told President Obama today that by early June they would finish writing legislation on health care to “provide coverage to all Americans.”

The commitment came from Senator Max Baucus, the Montana Democrat who is chairman of the Finance Committee, and Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat who is chairman of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.

They set forth their plans in a letter to Mr. Obama, in an apparent effort to create a sense of momentum without disclosing the specifics of their proposals.

The senators said their committees would vote on the legislation in early June. “Our intention is for that legislation to be very similar, and to reflect a shared approach to reform, so that the measures that our two committees report can be quickly merged into a single bill for consideration on the Senate floor,” the senators wrote.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/20/senators-set-timetable-for-health-care-bills/

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From the Senator's website:

Goals Of Baucus’ Plan:
· Achieve universal coverage
· Reduce health care costs
· Improve the quality of care our system provides
· Baucus’ vision for achieving these objectives includes an individual responsibility to hold health insurance – once quality, affordable, care is accessible to all.
· His plan seeks to reach that point through measures to shore up the employer-based system, through a one-stop insurance marketplace for individuals and businesses, and through limited expansions of public programs.

http://baucus.senate.gov/newsroom/details.cfm?id=304933

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1. "Individual responsibility to hold health insurance" = Mandatory Premiums = For-profit healthcare

equals same as it ever was.

Unregulated, for-profit healthcare is the problem. Single-payer healthcare is the solution.

America survived the demise of the gaslight and child labor; it can survive the demise of for-profit health care.

We need to have a million single-payer march.

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