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Obama’s cooking a health care deal with Snowe

10:13 am September 3, 2009, by jgalloway

This posted by CNN:

President Obama and top aides have quietly stepped up talks with moderate Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine on a scaled-back health care bill, according to two sources familiar with the negotiations.

The compromise plan would lack a government-run public health insurance option favored by Obama, but would leave the door open to adding that provision down the road under an idea proposed by Snowe, the sources said….

The modified proposal would include insurance reforms, such as preventing insurance companies from denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions, according to the source.

The potential deal would give insurance companies a defined period to make such changes in order to help cover more people and drive down long-term costs. But if those changes failed to occur within the defined period, a so-called “trigger” would provide for creating a public option to force change on the insurance companies, the source said.

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clyde

September 3rd, 2009
11:27 am

Over half of Snowe’s constituents don’t want Obama’s plan.It will remain to be seen if her constituents want any plan she puts forth.She does run on the Republican ticket.

Keith

September 3rd, 2009
11:59 am

It’s time to force Snowe out of the GOP. Olympia, Arlen Spectre is calling your name.

RetiredSoldier

September 3rd, 2009
2:05 pm

Snowe has been a RINO for years, not surprised by her actions.

retiredds

September 3rd, 2009
2:26 pm

I have an idea, since the government is such a bad administrator, let’s have private companies take over Medicare, the VA, all fire departments, all police departments, all public transportation, all highways, etc. etc. How many of you will step up a pay for those private sector services?

Road Scholar

September 3rd, 2009
2:49 pm

retredds: They have outsourced the security in Iraq and Afganastan already and look at how good that is going!!!Be careful for what you ask for; you may get it!

Bankerrkt

September 3rd, 2009
2:50 pm

Hey retiredds…..I’ll step up to pay for private sector services vs government services any day. The private sector is required to make a profit in order to stay in business. As such, they have to understand service, resource allocation and cost control while the government has never shown the ability to master those business fundamentals. A case in point…..FedEx or UPS vs the Post Office. And those services can be paid for very easily by backing off the tax dollars associated with them and sending the money back to the citizens (to whom it belongs). We thereby shrink the federal governrment that is way overdue and needed.

Read the bill

September 4th, 2009
4:37 pm

@ Bankerrkt – you won’t have to use government healthcare or do you still not get that?? Is anyone FORCING you to use the post office or are you free to go to FedEx????? Is anyone forcing you to send your kids to public school – or can you use any private school that you can afford?

People, if you have insurance you can keep it. Do yourself a favor and READ THE BILL. The Right is giving a BROAD reading to everyone trying to make everyone afraid of the bill. Without a public option, we ALL LOSE. Only the insurance companies will win with their HUGE PROFITS.

Wing nuts of the confederated Taliban GOP have lost it

September 5th, 2009
8:25 am

Let’s make this happen. The wing nuts have just plan lost it they don’t want to do nothing every thing is wrong in there eyes. we have the 51 votes in the senate and 218 in the house. But just remember the blue dogs who are 007 republican .
why vote for them they need Democrat votes to win. If they can’t stand with us when we need then why vote for them. They want to play on both sides of the fence let the GOP win there seat because they are with the GOP any ways. Time for the Democrats to have some balls. I give the GOP this must they have Ball even if the are wrong as hell!