by the Left Coast Rebel
This is just breaking and hard to get a handle on, I just got an email from the Lonely Conservative as a heads up, she writes at TLC:
The Democrats posted the whopping 2309 page bill online. Is there anyone out there with a little, or should I say, a lot of spare time on your hands? If so, let me know what you find. It does include the student loan provision – page 2099. I don’t have much time, but see on page four line 17 “Creates a new Health Insurance Exchange, with a public health insurance option alongside private plans.” The meat of the public option can be found on page 116.
No match was found for abortion.
I am shocked, outraged, stunned and confused. On a Sunday night no less! The tyranny we are in the midst of truly knows no boundaries. The Hill via Memeorandum has this on tonight's development:There’s all sorts of statist language, like “ensuring a level playing field.” Let me know what else you can dig up, I have to get up early and go to work in the morning, so I can’t stay up all night pouring through it. Figures they’d release it on a Sunday night.
Update: Read Michelle Malkin’s latest post on how they’re slaughtering the Constitution.
House Democrats on Sunday night set into motion what they hope will be the final steps on healthcare reform. The House Budget Committee on Sunday evening released text that will serve as the base legislation for the changes the House will seek to the Senate bill this week.
Specifically, the Budget committee released a 2,309-page effort that had been previously recommended to the Education and Labor Committee and Ways and Means Committee last year. The measure posted online does not include the substantive changes to the Senate healthcare bill that House Democrats will seek. Those changes will be offered during the markups in the Budget and Rules committees, which the budget panel hopes to begin on Monday afternoon.
The House is expected to approve the Senate's healthcare bill along with the package of changes. The Senate would then be expected to approve the package of changes under budget reconciliation rules.
Because the bill will be considered under budget reconciliation rules in the Senate, GOP senators will not be able to filibuster the package and Democrats will not need 60 votes to move the legislation through the Seante.
The House has demanded the Senate approve changes to its healthcare bill in exchange for the House voting for the Senate bill.House Democrats hope to complete their work by this weekend, before President Barack Obama begins an overseas trip he delayed for several days to focus on healthcare.
The markup by the Budget Committee is the first step toward bringing the measure to the House floor.
The American Spectator clears the fog on all of this legalese, this is just the 'shell bill'?:
Shortly before midnight on Sunday, Democrats released a 2,309 page health care bill that will start the process of reconciliation -- but don't let that fool you, it's not the actual reconciliation bill with all the changes you've been reading about. Instead, as Rep. Paul Ryan, the ranking Republican member on the Budget Committee, explained to me last week, this is just the "shell" bill -- the vehicle that Democrats need to get moving on health care. Once the bill gets approved (likely Monday), Democrats will send this phantom bill over to the Rules Committee, where it will be stripped, and then they'll insert in all of the actual changes that they've negotiated.
Well, under the reconciliation rules in last year's budget, any reconciliation bill would have to have been submitted to the Budget Committee by October 15, 2009. It just so happens that earlier versions of health care legislation cleared the Ways and Means and Education and Labor Committees last year. So Democrats just dusted that legislation off, and are using that as the vehicle to begin the reconciliation process. That's why, for instance, if you look through the 2,309 page bill that was released Sunday night, you'll find a public option, which leadership has indicated would not actually be in the final bill. (Interestingly, the student loan bill is also tacked on at the end.)
Last week, Ryan told me that Republicans don't have the votes to stop the bill in the Budget Committee and that Democrats will also be able to prevent Republicans from offering any amendments. However, GOP members will be able to offer "motions to instruct" the Rules Committee, that Ryan said will be used highlight problems with the "unprecedented" step that Democrats are taking.
As with any tyrannical regime, this Congress pushes forward with this on a Sunday night thereby surprising every activist in the country and slowing the news process as well. Michelle Malkin has the best writeup of what you can do to stop this. It still can be stopped, remember the Scott Brown miracle at the one yard line? Consider the March 16 Capitol March as well. Do anything that you can to stop this madness.
I'm signing off until tomorrow. Don't be disheartened! If anything be resolved and mad as hell.
UPDATED: Before signing off I had to get more information on the public option in this reconciliation 'shell bill' and I found it via. Red State:
And it appears they’ve decided to go all-in on this one. Included in the bill appears to be the “public option” that was removed from the Senate bill. From page 1167 of the bill:
Good night all, let us fight hard all next week to stop this tyranny!Subtitle B—Public Health Insurance Option
SEC. 221. ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF A PUBLIC HEALTH INSURANCE OPTION AS AN EXCHANGE-QUALIFIED HEALTH BENEFITS PLAN.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—For years beginning with Y1, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (in this subtitle referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’) shall provide for the offering of an Exchange-participating health benefits plan (in this subdivision referred to as the ‘‘public health insurance option’’) that ensures choice, competition, and stability of affordable, high quality coverage throughout the United States in accordance with this subtitle. In designing the option, the Secretary’s primary responsibility is to create a low-cost plan without compromising quality or access to care.
1 comments:
Tim, you have the Leftwing Libertarians to thank for all this.
Just remember it was Lew Rockwell, Justin Raimondo, Reason Editors, David Nolan, even many at Cato, who mercissly bashed George W. Bush and the War in Iraq, in 2007/08, and hammered the GOP as the "big government party" thereby weakening the Republicans in 2008.
All the while the Moveon.org/Daily Kos crowd was giggling their asses off at the lefty libertarians, and all the work they didn't have to do.
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