I am not sure how many of the public noticed a provision in the proposed health reform legislation that would have placed a federal tax on cosmetic procedures. The provision was known as the Bo-TAX and it aroused a unified response from the medical community in general and organized medicine in particular. This proposed tax was a clear example of how out of touch the Congress is with the needs of the public. This always happens in government when those who govern make a career of governing rather than serving the electorate.
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President Obama is still determined to pass a major health care legislation, and on Monday the White House released the $3.8 trillion budget which “includes $150 billion in deficit reduction over 10 years on the presumption that a health care bill will be adopted,” says David M. Herszenhorn from The New York Times.
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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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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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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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