Support for the bill will drop week after week during November and December.
By the time Congress reconvenes in January to wrestle with the two competing versions, support for the bill will have dwindled to a perilous point. This reduced level of support will just serve to make senators and congressmen more intransigent in the negotiations. Since the bill will need 60 votes in the Senate after the conference report, Lieberman, Maine’s Snowe and Collins and a handful of other moderates will each have a veto. And, collectively, the liberals in each chamber will have one as well.
Weeks and months of wrangling will ensue. The result could be the defeat of the bill or its amendment in positive ways (for those opposed to it).
Our task is to reduce public support for the bill by publicizing its provisions.
SOURCE: Dick Morris
Friday, November 13, 2009
More in U.S. Say Health Coverage Is Not Gov’t. Responsibility
More Americans now say it is not the federal government's responsibility to make sure all Americans have healthcare coverage (50%) than say it is (47%). This is a first since Gallup began tracking this question, and a significant shift from as recently as three years ago, when two-thirds said ensuring healthcare coverage was the government's responsibility.
SOURCE: Gallup
SOURCE: Gallup
Waiting On CBO
This year's battles over health care reforms have produced something we really haven't seen before in the Congress, as lawmakers have been forced to delay their work while congressional budget analysts review the proposals of both parties.
[...] It was back on October 26 that Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid announced at a news conference that he was going with a public health insurance option, and submitting other choices to the CBO for review, before putting together a final bill.
Well, it is now November 13, two and a half weeks later, and the CBO hasn't produced figures as yet. Democrats are hoping to get those figures today, so they can finalize their bill for debate on the Senate floor.
SOURCE: Jamie Dupree
[...] It was back on October 26 that Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid announced at a news conference that he was going with a public health insurance option, and submitting other choices to the CBO for review, before putting together a final bill.
Well, it is now November 13, two and a half weeks later, and the CBO hasn't produced figures as yet. Democrats are hoping to get those figures today, so they can finalize their bill for debate on the Senate floor.
SOURCE: Jamie Dupree
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