Flash: PelosiCare vote not till Tuesday?

Posted by Clyde Middleton on Nov 6 2009 Filed under Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

Just got this writing in an e from Rep. Marsha Blackburn:

As I write this, Members are being informed that the health care debate is likely to extend through the weekend. A final vote may not come until Tuesday. The Rules Committee, the body that decides what amendments will and not be considered on H.R. 3962 is meeting now. I am waiting my turn to offer a series of amendments that would make H.R. 3962 a better bill.

Perhaps the most important amendment prevents unfunded mandates from being passed on to the states. This bill expands Medicaid to 150% of the Federal Poverty Level and then sticks Tennessee with part of the bill in the out years. That means that Tennessee would have to find another $1.4 billion by 2019. That’s money we just don’t have.

I have listed my other amendments at the end of this note.

This morning I was on C-Span’s Washington Journal. The host asked me if I agreed with Leader Boehner’s assessment that this health care bill is a threat to our freedom. As I answered on C-Span:

“I think people are looking at what has transpired since the first of the year, the philosophical change where there is more government control of most sectors , whether it is investment banking, whether it is consumer credit, whether it is auto manufacturing, student loans, health care. They’re looking at what is happening with energy, when we talk about having cap and tax. They’re looking at what is happening with communication, with what I call ‘fairness doctrine for the Internet’ They call it net neutrality. It’s not very neutral. People are growing deeply concerned about the shifting of philosophy in this government.”

Yesterday, dozens of Tennesseans were in Washington to express their outrage at this bill. I was inspired by their sacrifice. They know, as do I, that there is a better way, and there are far better bills to fix health care in this country.

My Best,

Marsha

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