Here's your proof.
CNN has learned that – barring some unforeseen change — Democratic Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus will unveil a health care proposal Wednesday without the support of the three Republican senators — Charles Grassley, Mike Enzi and Olympia Snowe — he's been negotiating with for months. ... Wednesday, when the Senate Finance Chairman unveils his bill, all indications are he will be doing it without the support of Republicans he has spent hundreds of hours negotiating with.To sum it up, the Democrats wimpishly gutted their own historically-large piece of Healthcare legislation on the always-false hopes of getting a few Republicans to vote for it, all for nothing... which was exactly what was expected.
Here is a word that I've co-opted from the field of mathematics: Idempotent. Idempotent is an adjective that describes an action which, if repeated, does not bring further results, or improve upon the original results from the first time the action is made. Repeatedly pressing the fast-forward button on your tape recorder to make it go faster is an idempotent action. Washing your hands repeatedly is an idempotent action. Negotiating your healthcare bill downward and downward and downward with Republicans hoping to win their support is another.
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His plan would penalize you for not having health insurance, Jil.
It would levy a 35% tax on my insurance policy.
Good ideas ?
It's an issue I haven't really followed to be honest, Frank. The only way I'm seeing it is as a political macguffin.
Okay Frank, I did a little bit of looking around.
The penalty for not having health insurance, and the tax on insurance policies are part of the (misguided/misleading) negotiations that Republicans were having with Senator Baucus, which I mentioned in this blog post. President Obama strongly opposes these ideas.
Since the Republicans, Baucus, and their ideas have been left fluttering in the breeze by both Republicans and Democrats alike, I wouldn't reify these ideas by any stretch if I were you.
Hmm... It's a bit of a head scratcher why Republicans would have cadged these two ideas out of Baucus, unless (like I said) they really aren't interested in any Democrat plan at all, and just wanted to add to the miasma already floating around this bill, so that they have more things to complain about.
So, to sum it up: The two things that you are complaining about are two things that were cooked up by Republicans negotiating with Max Baucus to water down the bill. The original healthcare bill apparently did not (does not) have them.
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