Aug 12 2009
House Rules Cmte. Chairwoman Won’t Say If She’ll Allow Floor Vote to Strip Abortion Coverage from Obamacare
At a press conference on Capitol Hill this afternoon, Rules Committee Chairwoman Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) wouldn’t say if she would allow a floor vote on the Stupak-Pitts amendment to prohibit abortion coverage from the public health-care plan and private plans subsidized by taxpayer dollars.
“The bill is exactly silent on abortion,” Rep. Slaughter said. “We think [...]
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Aug 11 2009
Does Linda Douglass know about this? part 2
Barack Obama’s denial that he has advocated a “single payer,” Canadian style health care system may not have been the most comic moment of his Portsmouth dog-and-pony show. He also disputed the notion that adding a government plan to “compete” with private insurance plans would drive insurers out of business, indirectly creating a single [...]
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