By DAVE HELLING and DAVID GOLDSTEIN
The Kansas City Star
A pounded gavel, the votes, then four words: “The bill is passed.”
With that, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced narrow passage Saturday of historic legislation that would fundamentally change American health care for decades.
Democrats erupted in weary applause and cheers after a day-long [...]
That was then. This is now:
House Republicans slammed the new Democratic health care reform bill this morning, but didn't say when or if they'll be offering a reform package of their own...
The GOP made a strong and repeated case about what they think is wrong in Pelosi's bill [...]
The Congressional Budget Office has scored HR 3962, the House health care bill introduced today. (The full report is attached below.)
The conclusion: Expanding health coverage and the bill's other provisions will cost $894 billion* over ten years, but would be paid for with $426 billion in spending cuts [...]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will unveil a health-care reform bill on Thursday that includes a government insurance option and a historic expansion of Medicaid, although sticking points in the legislation involving abortion and immigration remain unresolved.
Senior Democratic House aides said the bill would likely include a version [...]
from the Post-Chronicle
The health reform bill making its way through the House of Representatives will include a public insurance option, but negotiations are continuing on the details of the plan, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said.
"At the end of the day we will have a public option" in the House bill, Pelosi [...]
Apart from the fact that:
the Senate Finance Committee proposal Kinder finds so outrageous was most certainly not "crafted by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid," and it's not a "government takeover of healthcare,"Kinder is right on target. Especially the part about how the Baucus health care reform will cause criminals to run' [...]
