According to CNN, “Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Congress would pass a health care bill this year, while his counterpart in the House — Speaker Nancy Pelosi — outlined a two-step plan intended to maintain public focus on the issue.” However, because of Republican Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts last week, hopes of getting a bill passed were quickly crushed. Democrats lost their 60-vote Senate supermajority, and since the election, Democrats have been struggling to think of a new plan.
Pelosi released the idea of a two-step process “in which the House would likely vote in coming weeks on a series of specific health care provisions that have popular support. At the same time, Pelosi said, work would continue on finding a way to pass a more comprehensive overhaul later,” reports CNN. If some health care reforms were to progress that the public support, House Democrats feel it would “demonstrate their resolve to work on a top priority issue during an election year,” states CNN.
What do you think of Pelosi’s two-step plan?
Related Posts:
Previous post: Are You 35 and Hoping to Get Pregnant?
Next post: Strawberries Help Whiten Your Teeth?!
