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Obama promised that a health care reform bill would expand access to health insurance and lower costs for people who already have health plans, and despite several set-backs, President Obama says he’s not giving up on health care reform. Fox News states that Obama said “he had “no illusions” about the difficulty of the health care fight when he took it on and vowed to work with members on both sides of the aisle to pass a bill.”
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According to Karen Schuberg from CNS News, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stated on Thursday that “there were not enough votes to pass the Senate-version of the bill in the House of Representatives.” Many things have led to the lack of public support for health-care reform, but Rep. Mike Pence says that the abortion language in the Senate bill is what really contributed to the bill failing; in the Senate health care bill tax dollars would go to health plans that cover abortion.
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Democrats are worried that a scaled-back version of the health-care bill will lead to Republicans taking all the credit. Thursday, House Democrats discussed a couple ways to get the health-care reform legislation passed. Sam Stein from the Huffington Post states that, “The first is to pass the Senate’s bill — though only on the condition that additional reforms would be tackled in a separate filibuster-proof bill, to be passed through a process called reconciliation. The second approach is to pare down the package — stripping it to its unobjectionable core (insurance regulation, money to help people buy care, etc.) — and use that as a building block for future legislation.”
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Many political commentators have already proclaimed that health care reform is no more due to Republican Scott Brown’s win in Massachusetts. However, it may be too soon to officially state the bill as being completely done. Douglas E. Schoen of NY Daily News states that, “What Massachusetts voters told us is that they have no appetite for partisan reform. In other words, lawmakers can still pass substantive legislation that improves America’s health care system so long as their effort is bipartisan.”
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Due to Senator Scott Brown (R) defeating state Attorney General Martha Coakley (D) for the Senate seat, Democratic leaders are racing to salvage health-care reform legislation. On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) got together to talk about plans for if there was a Republican victory, which in fact there was. “The House Democratic Caucus then met shortly after 7 pm Tuesday to discuss the progress of healthcare negotiations with the Senate and White House,” reports Alexander Bolton from The Hill.
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People all over the country are on the edge of their seat awaiting the US Senate to “agree upon a final draft of the bill, so that it can be put into effect,” states Top News. And while the nation awaits a final draft, Boston is all set up and ready for the health-care reform conference scheduled for later this week. There will be over a hundred health-care professionals meeting there to talk about how to efficiently extend health insurance coverage. The conference, titled “How to Organize Exchanges and Other Lessons Learned”, is expected to attract lawmakers, policy-makers and Government-agency officials from several states.
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Millions of Americans are currently uninsured and the numbers keep on growing. If the health-care reform doesn’t pass, the numbers will continue to grow, and taxpayers will be footing the bill when the uninsured end up in the emergency room. “Families will continue to be paralyzed by the high costs and insecurity of medical coverage,” and “people will opt against entrepreneurial ventures and postpone retirement because of the need to stay on employer health plans,” states Barb Shelly from the Kansas City Star. People will be denied affordable coverage from insurance companies due to “preexisting” conditions, and money spent on medical care will continue to overwhelm the country. “People will continue to die from preventable hospital infections and other unnecessary medical errors,” and “physicians will continue to be paid for procedures, not results,” reports Shelly.
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Monday night President Obama intended to relieve organized labor’s doubts about the health-care reform, “even as several key union leaders warned that the bill’s final outlines could severely dampen their enthusiasm for the Democratic ticket in this year’s elections,” states The Washington Post.
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