Public option. Check. Higher taxes on the wealthy. Check.
Now if Baucus would stop screwing around with Grassley, we could get this done. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
Is there a "public right to a minimum health standard" or is that for the next New Deal 70 years down the line? The peak-to-trough part of the business cycle is an outlier. Carnot would have died laughing.
Subsidies for households with incomes up to 400% of the poverty line, or about $90k for a family of four, if I remember correctly.
No taxation on employer health benefits, which I didn't have strong feelings about, but Obama makes a fair point about opposing it on grounds that he campaigned on no new taxes for households below $250k per year. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
That was important. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
What are the odds of this making it to Obama's desk without losing some of the shine?
Mostly the issue now is getting the Finance committee to get off its ass and pass something that can be reconciled with the Kennedy bill, then through the Senate and reconciled with the House. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
That's a bargain: the catastrophe of being ill without insurance, the fear of losing insurance, all ended -- for much less than the Bush administration's useless $1.35 trillion first tax cut, quickly followed by another $350 billion.
