Senior Dem: Kill the Senate health reform bill and start over
Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.), [Erie County, Monroe County, Niagara County, and Orleans County. Parts of Buffalo and Rochester, the second and third largest cities in New York,] [the chairwoman of the House Rules Committee and co-chairwoman of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus, said that the Senate's bill is so flawed that it's unlikely to be resolved in conference with the bill to have passed the House.
"The Senate health care bill is not worthy of the historic vote that the House took a month ago," Slaughter wrote in an opinion piece for CNN's website. Slaughter argued that while the House bill is far from perfect, the Senate bill's exclusion of a public option, along with abortion funding restrictions and other measures, make the bill undeserving of a vote.Specifically, Slaughter said, the Senate bill would charge seniors higher premiums, would fail to nix health insurers' antitrust exemption and would not go far enough in extending coverage to people in the U.S.
Schumer Says Every State Got Special Treatment in Health Bill
By Jonathan D. Salant
Dec. 23 (Bloomberg) -- New York Senator Charles Schumer defended the special Medicaid payments that Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska obtained for his state before agreeing to support health-care legislation, saying all states got something in the measure.
“Every state has its own unique situations,” Schumer said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” airing this weekend. “That’s why we have a Senate.”
The Senate is scheduled tomorrow to vote on an $871 billion measure that would extend coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans. Lawmakers will then face the challenge of melding the Senate bill with legislation passed in the House on Nov. 7.
The Medicaid deal hasn’t been well received in some corners. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina called the agreements “backroom deals that amount to bribes.”
Kliphnote: Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand what did NY get? Besides costing NY between $1.1 billion and $1.25 billion, per year!
Thanks for nothing senators.
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