AP: Obama, Congressional Allies Signal They Will Try to Scale Back Sweeping Health Care Reform Bill

AP: Obama, Congressional Allies Signal They Will Try to Scale Back Sweeping Health Care Reform Bill

"No decisions have been made, lawmakers said, but they laid out a new approach that could still include these provisions: limiting the ability of insurance companies to deny coverage to people with medical problems, allowing young adults to stay on their parents' policies, helping small businesses and low-income people pay premiums and changing Medicare to encourage payment for quality care instead of sheer volume of services."

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Marcella

The main consideration in imposing the bill should be the the welfare of the majority, and hopefully that whats gonna happen as we talk about the health care reform issue. Anyway did you know that Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was absolutely right to jump on the Rush Limbaugh Haiti comments. Though the boorish conservative polemicist did advocate donating to the Red Cross, he also said that we donated enough from our taxes. He failed to address that foreign aid is a small part of the federal budget, amounting to little, and the Haiti Earthquake is going to need more than a couple of payday loans to patch up. Even though he did advocate that people donate, during these sorts of things, people like Limbaugh really don't add anything constructive at all – he usually doesn't anyway.