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Great stuff.

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.

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jul 14th, 2009 at 05:00:49 PM EST
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Yep, got that, too.  No discrimination on pre-existing conditions, etc.  Public option gets rolled out to be available to all citizens and employers (as opposed to leaving it only open to the unemployed and a few others).

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

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Jul 14th, 2009 at 05:04:44 PM EST
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As important as the public option, in my opinion, the bill also sets up a national exchange, rather than leaving those to be sorted on a state-by-state basis or in the form of localized co-op nonsense.  States can do their own if they like.

That was important.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Jul 14th, 2009 at 05:10:13 PM EST
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Impressive to see some progress.

What are the odds of this making it to Obama's desk without losing some of the shine?

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Wed Jul 15th, 2009 at 05:55:38 AM EST
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At least some of its shine?  Probably not good.  As always, the House is not the problem.  For now, though, the House passing this bill will do.  That way we have at least one good bill going in on one side for the conference committee.  The Kennedy bill is the Senate isn't as strong, but it'd be a good effort for the Senate.

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

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Wed Jul 15th, 2009 at 06:30:49 AM EST
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