So it seems to have a public option (0.00 / 0)

Did the other post disappear?

Subtitle B-Public Health Insurance Option
Sec. 221. Establishment and administration of a public health insurance option
as an Exchange-qualified health benefits plan.
Sec. 222. Premiums and financing.
Sec. 223. Payment rates for items and services.
Sec. 224. Modernized payment initiatives and delivery system reform.
Sec. 225. Provider participation.
Sec. 226. Application of fraud and abuse provisions.

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by: Hopeful in NJ @ Mon Mar 15, 2010 at 03:48:09 AM UTC

Yeah, I deleted it (4.00 / 2)

This is an old bill, and not the one they are sending to committee.  It is just a vessel through which they will insert the reconciliation bill later.

We still don't have the contents of the reconciliation bill yet.

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by: Chris Bowers @ Mon Mar 15, 2010 at 03:51:13 AM UTC

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thank you Chris (4.00 / 1)

Well, it was exciting for a moment.

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by: Hopeful in NJ @ Mon Mar 15, 2010 at 03:56:25 AM UTC

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Yeah, I know! (4.00 / 2)

I was stunned and happy. Oh well--it was short enough not to get my hopes up too high.

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by: Chris Bowers @ Mon Mar 15, 2010 at 04:07:15 AM UTC

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The time of the event (0.00 / 0)

Is that 11am PST?

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by: mardod @ Mon Mar 15, 2010 at 05:58:41 AM UTC

Chris lives in the eastern time zone... (0.00 / 0)

I presume he means EDT.

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by: lord_mike @ Mon Mar 15, 2010 at 06:33:19 AM UTC

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I know y'all are committed PTDBers (4.00 / 1)

but please ask some tough questions as to why no public option when there is absolutely no reason not to have a vote.

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by: bmull @ Mon Mar 15, 2010 at 06:41:52 AM UTC

ask on progressive block strategy (4.00 / 1)

When progressives demanded a public option, everyone said progressives would cave. Progressive Caucus members said, "this time is different." Then people started pushing the cave. Then progressives caved.

The question for Pelosi should be:

Considering the way the members of the Progressive Caucus conducted themselves during the Public Option debate, is it more or less likely the rest of the Democratic Caucus will take their requirements seriously in the debate over global warming?

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by: Bob Brigham @ Mon Mar 15, 2010 at 06:51:16 AM UTC

For Pelosi (4.00 / 1)

1) Position on Grayson? Will it or any PO bill be allowed a floor vote this term? (Obviously assuming no PO in current reconciliation.)

2) Is this so-called Slaughter Rule actually being considered or is that just winger hysteria? Any concern about the optics of a landmark bill being enacted without a direct final vote on the main bill? I highly doubt repealed 'Cornhusker kickbacks' will matter much by November. Passing a landmark HCR bill without a direct vote seems like just the kind of insider Washington trick that could be demagogued in elections.

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by: Steve in Sacto @ Mon Mar 15, 2010 at 06:55:05 AM UTC

Ask her why in a year of working on HCR (4.00 / 2)

no one thought of Grayson's 1-page Medicare buy-in idea. Ask her why every one of her committees started instead with an eerily similar Rube Goldberg system of exchanges and subsidies that has never worked to control costs. Ask her why she said Friday that those exchanges obviate the need for a public option. Ask her why, if she doesn't believe the Senate has 50 votes for the PO, she doesn't put them on the spot by including it in the reconcilation package. I mean, it's not like the Senate hasn't screwed her about 900 times.

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by: bmull @ Mon Mar 15, 2010 at 07:42:47 AM UTC

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2014 (4.00 / 2)

Chris - Could you make it clear to Ms. Pelosi that if the protection from pre-existing condition discrimination doesn't take effect until 2014 - that's 3 elections away. That's 3 more elections when people like me, who donated $3,000 to dems, will not be able or willing to donate a penny. I'm so mad I won't even vote for another democrat until I get a policy.

It's just plain stupid to pass a bill that doesn't improve people's problems until 3 elections down the road. Think about it. It's crazy.

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by: obsessed @ Mon Mar 15, 2010 at 10:20:59 AM UTC

Is it accurate that subsidized plans will only be those w/ lowest standards? (0.00 / 0)

Commenter at DU wrote subsized plans will only have 60% coverage of costs -- which means those least able to pay will have huge co-pays, deductibles.

WOW.

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by: jawbone2 @ Mon Mar 15, 2010 at 15:15:41 PM UTC