Posts Tagged ‘Senate HELP’

In the News

 October 7, 2009

Congress’ Secret Plan to Pass Obamacare

Leaders in the House and Senate have a plan to pass President Barack Obama’s sweeping health care plan by Thanksgiving without any significant participation by the American public.

A new report from CNSNews.com quoting a senior aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) confirms “it is ‘likely’ that Reid will use H.R. 1586 — a bill passed by the House in March to impose a 90-percent tax on bonuses paid to employees of certain bailed-out financial institutions — as a ’shell’ for enacting the final version of the Senate’s health care bill.”

This story confirms the four-part scenario that would railroad the bill through the Senate using a very unusual closed-door procedure to craft the bill with no input from the American people.

The Heritage Foundation last month exposed the following four-step plan to pass Obamacare. Now it has been publicly confirmed and is ready to be implemented. (more…)

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Key Documents

 September 10, 2009

CBO letter to Sen. Enzi (R-WY)

The Congressional Budget Office (the official scorekeeper of congressional legislation) released a letter to Senator Enzi (R-WY) in response to several questions regarding the potential effects of the Senate HELP Committee’s Affordable Health Care Choices Act. In the response, the CBO supplies information on the effects of expanding the Medicaid program, effects on employer and employees, the effects of a “public plan”, and the effects on overall expenditures for health care.

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Key Documents

 September 8, 2009

New Senate Health Bill

Americans and Members of Congress have waited nearly eight weeks for the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee to post the updated version of the passed Health Reform Bill adopted by the Committee on July 15, 2009. After weeks of delay, the bill is now available on the committee’s website.

You can read the Senate bill here.

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In the News

 July 30, 2009

So Much For Transparency

Though two weeks have passed since Democrats approved a partisan health care bill in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, a complete copy of the final bill as amended in Committee remains unavailable for the public or members of the Senate to review, and the bill’s supporters have yet to release a final estimate of the its costs.

“We need to know what’s in the HELP Committee bill and how much it costs. Democrats passed this bill through Committee more than two weeks ago now. How long will they take to post the final language so the American people can read it?” asked Senator Mike Enzi, (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the HELP Committee.

Enzi led committee Republicans today in requesting a full copy of the bill and a final cost estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

Read the complete press release and letter from the office of Senator Mike Enzi.

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Latest Research

 July 23, 2009

Micromanaging Americans’ Health Insurance: The Impact of House and Senate Bills

Both the pending House health care bill and Senate HELP Committee bill include provisions that would, if enacted, result in sweeping, complex, and highly discretionary new federal regulation of health insurance.

Read more here.

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Key Documents

 July 6, 2009

Senate Health Bill

Full text of the “Affordable Health Choices Act” (Kennedy-Dodd bill).

An updated version of the Kennedy bill, released July 1, 2009.

Letter from CBO to Kennedy, July 2, 2009.

Bipartisan Senate Health Reform Letter, July 17, 2009.

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Key Documents

 June 5, 2009

Briefing Paper for Senate HELP

Click here for Senator Kennedy’s Briefing Paper presented to the Senate HELP Committee on May 21, 2009.

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