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U.S. Sen. John Cornyn says, “When the people of Massachusetts voted to send Scott Brown to Washington, they gave us an opportunity to produce the kind of health care reform that all Americans can support.” He says Americans want Republicans and Democrats to work on reform not behind closed doors, and to be clear about their plans.
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Republican Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts last week has left Democrats shocked and unsure of what to do next in regards to health care. According to Kent Garber from U.S. News, Democrats are “trying to decide what to do: push forward, back down, or take a new approach to salvage healthcare reform.” Wednesday night in President Obama’s State of the Union address, he urged congress to “finish the job for the American people,” but he didn’t specify a time limit. Whatever they choose to do depends on a few things, such as “including balancing what the White House wants against what Democratic leaders think they can get, interpreting what voters in Massachusetts were saying, and divining what, if anything, the outcome means for the November midterm elections,” states Garber.
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A record number of Americans have donated their time and money to support relief efforts in Haiti, revealing the intense compassion and generosity Americans have. If you turn on your television, it’s impossible to avoid seeing the devastating images of those suffering in Haiti, and the terrible conditions survivors are living in. And since these images are everywhere we turn, it has caused us to donate as much as we can, either online or through cell phones. And for a brief moment last week, these devastating images were interrupted to report Republican Scott Brown’s, a health care reform critic, victory in Massachusetts.
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Despite Republican Scott Brown’s win in Massachusetts, the White House has not given up on health care reform. NY Daily News reports that David Axelrod, a senior Obama adviser, said, “It’s very clear, people don’t want us to walk away from health care,” and that, “they want us to address their concerns with the program.”
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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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Plastic Surgeons and dermatologists are letting out a huge sigh of relief since the tax on elective cosmetic surgery, also known as the “bo-tax,” has been dismissed. The new tax that is proposed in the health care bill will be on indoor tanning services.
NYTimes.com reported that the 10% tax on “fake” tanning services will go into effect in July 2010 which means any indoor tanning services provider must add that additional tax onto their services. By 2020 this new tax will have raised close to $3 billion, this money will go to help millions of Americans obtain health insurance.
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Republican Scott Brown’s win in Massachusetts on Tuesday has left President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in shock, and has them scrambling for a new plan. The loss of their Senate supermajority has completely caught them off guard due to the fact that they were nearly done with reforming the nation’s health care system and already starting to shift focus onto other issues, such as creating more jobs and lowering the deficit.
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President Barack Obama’s health plan was created to help the average American by substantially lowering costs for families and not requiring adults to purchase insurance, and in return, only wealthy people’s taxes would increase. “But a year later, the health care proposals in Congress lack many of those easy-to-sell benefits, which became victims of the lengthy process of trying to win over wavering lawmakers, appeasing powerful special-interest groups and addressing concerns about the heavily burdened Treasury,” reports MSNBC.
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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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It seems like health-care reform negotiations are never ending, and in order to solve the remaining issues, democratic leaders are still meeting with administration officials. There is a light at the end of the tunnel though, and House speaker Nancy Pelosi told her colleagues “that they would have something they “can sink their teeth into” by early next week,” states Modern Healthcare.
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