Week of August 17, 2009 : EasyToInsureME
The highly charged health care reform debate continues to get extensive news coverage, and Members of Congress are clearly feeling the heat. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) took the unusual step of issuing a (more…)
The House is scheduled to leave town for summer recess on July 31, and the Senate’s current schedule sends them home a week later on August 7. It will be next to impossible for the House to address health care reform on the floor in that timeframe, and the Senate Leadership has already put off Senat (more…)
Even as partisan rhetoric swirled even stronger around the subject of health care reform, the Senate Finance Committee continued its health reform negotiations last week in what is the last hope for a bipartisan bill from Congress. Senators left Washington late last week to start their August re (more…)
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As mightily as it has tried over the last week, Congress has only marginally moved the needle on health care reform. The Finance Committee will go home for the recess without a deal but with a promise to continue negotiating during the break, and with a target date (more…)
