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WASHINGTON (Nov. 17) -- Republican senators today grilled President Barack Obama's point man on the new health care law, vowing that the next Congress would keep a close eye on the federal agency that oversees coverage for one in three Americans. "You said you would be open and transparent. Many people may be a little skeptical of this comment," Sen. Jim Bunning of Kentucky told Donald Berwick, who as administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services runs an agency with a budget larger than the Pentagon's. Saying Republicans had been "locked out" of writing the health care law, ...
Questions About Cost Delay Health Care Vote
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyThe Senate Finance Committee is pushing back its final vote on health care reform scheduled for Tuesday because the Congressional Budget Office has not completed estimating the final cost of the bill. Several senators, including Maine Republican Olympia Snowe, have said they do not want to cast a vote on the bill until they have, well, a bill. In other words, how much is reforming health care and expanding coverage going to cost us? The CBO number, or "score," has caused fits and starts for health care reform all year. When Director Doug Elmendorf testified to the Senate Budget Committee this ...
Debate on Public Health Insurance Plan Explodes in Senate
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyThe debate over whether to create a public insurance plan to compete with private plans is about to explode in the Senate Finance Committee. The stakes are high and so is the suspense. (Update 4 p.m. ET Tuesday: Public options voted down. See Patricia Murphy's report here). It's unclear what the outcome will be Tuesday when the committee, continuing work on its 10-year, $900 billion health reform bill, is scheduled to take up three versions of a public health insurance option. The panel has 13 Democrats and 10 Republicans. Anything less than a solid wall of Republican opposition to all three ...
Health Reform Bill Starts a Perilous, Partisan Journey Through the Senate
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyYou can't beat the marbled, high-ceilinged "Central Hearing Facility" in the Hart Senate Office Building as a showcase for deep national divides. The chasms illuminated during Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings in July ranged from age and gender to ethnicity, geography and philosophy. This week, sharp partisanship and irreconcilable ideologies are on display as the Senate Finance Committee works its way through 564 amendments to what could become a landmark health bill. ...
Congressmen Push for More Time to Read Bills
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyAfter hearing chants of "Read the bill!" at town hall meetings across America, members of both parties, on both sides of Capitol Hill, pushed efforts Wednesday to make legislation available to the public before Congress votes on it. On the House side, four Congressmen -- two Democrats and two Republicans -- circulated a letter urging their colleagues to support a floor vote to make bills available online 72 hours before a vote. Although the congressmen introduced a bill on the matter in June, it has never been scheduled for a vote by the House Democratic leadership. "Americans made it ...
In Health Endgame, Senate Democrats Need GOP-Style Discipline
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyIt was too much to hope that the watching-grass-grow stage would be over when Sen. Max Baucus unveiled his long awaited, painstakingly negotiated health reform bill. No, both Democrats and Republicans apparently view this as a mere starting point. The Montana Democrat, who chairs the Senate Finance Committee and led months of bipartisan negotiations, had to release his bill Wednesday without one Republican on board. It was very public evidence of failure. He wore a smile, however, and insisted some Republicans will sign on before the bill leaves the committee. Maybe he hadn't yet seen ...
Illegal Immigrants Still an Issue in Senate Health Care Negotiations
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyDespite the Obama administration's assurances that illegal immigrants will not receive health insurance benefits under health care reform, six key senators dealt with the increasingly contentious issue as they worked behind closed doors Monday. The 'gang of six' senators-- three Democrats and three Republicans-- are in the final stages of fashioning a compromise on health care that could get the 60 votes necessary to pass out of the chamber. Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said Monday that the group had discussed several specific items in negotiations, ...
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