(HuffPo)
"Legislation is already pending in the Senate to reduce the control individual lawmakers and Congress as a whole have over setting the rates doctors and other providers are paid under Medicare.
"In his letter, Orszag forwarded an alternative proposal that he said would accomplish the same goal.
"In his letter, Orszag forwarded an alternative proposal that he said would accomplish the same goal.
— David Espo (AP)
Read more about the administration's healthcare push.
As it is, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recommends how much Medicare pays doctors and other providers. Congress isn't obliged to follow them or even vote on the recommednation when it sets annual rates.
Orszag recommended that lawmakers vote on the 10-member board recommendations, and he proposes that the recommendations take effect unless rejected by the House and Senate.
I know it's totally post-PC to remark on Orszag's Semetic good looks, but has anyhbody called gaydar on this guy yet?
Obama's weekend healthcare address:
"In a statement released after Obama spoke, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said lawmakers 'now stand on the doorstep' of enacting legislation."
Meanwhile, six centrist senators hope to slam the door in the face of healthcare reform. This is one of those moments when you can do something, even if our your own peculiar senators aren't involved.
"I can almost guarantee you this thing won't pass before August, and if we can hold it back until we go home for a month's break in August... Senators and Congressmen will come back in September afraid to vote against the American people," South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint predicted.
"If we’re able to stop Obama on this it will be his Waterloo. It will break him," he said.
If you know someone in Oregon, Connecticut, Maine, Louisiana, or Nebraska, now would be a good time to see if they're willing to call or write one of these six senators trying to hold up the healthcare reform bill in the Senate.
Request this dirty half-dozen act in good faith.
Have your friends contact:
Wyden of Oregon
href="http://wyden.senate.gov/contact
Lieberman of Connecticut
http://lieberman.senate.gov/contact
Snowe of Maine
http://snowe.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactSenatorSnowe.Phone
http://snowe.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactSenatorSnowe.Email
Collins of Maine
http://collins.senate.gov/public/continue.cfm?FuseAction=ContactSenatorCollins.Phone
http://collins.senate.gov/public/continue.cfm?FuseAction=ContactSenatorCollins.Email
Landrieu of Louisiana
http://landrieu.senate.gov/services/offices.cfm
Nelson of Nebraska
http://billnelson.senate.gov/contact/legislation.cfm
If you believe the arch of history places us directly in the path of prophecy, that the Rapture is eminent, and the Tribulation is teetering over us... why abandon us to 7 years of hell without healthcare... just moments before you go?
"Acts 4:31-37: When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.
They spoke the word of God with boldness. The multitude was of one heart and one soul: neither said any of them that the things which he possessed were his own, but they had all things common.
Neither was there anyone among them that lacked, for many who possessed land or houses sold them and brought the prices of the things that were sold and laid at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according to his need.
We have few secular apostles to speak with any authority for the interests of the damned. Virtually ALL of our elected officials are defenders of faith in this completely meddlesome God of ours, and we have to negotiate for ourselves, our agnostic needs, and we ask you to leave us with a healthcare system in better shape than the way you found it.
Ezekiel : "Is it not enough for you to drink clear water? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet?"
God asks you to leave it better than the way you found it.
Read more about the Dirty half-Dozen.
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