Dixie Juanita Nightingale, 70, of Farmington formerly of New Sharon, passed away Thursday, September 2, 2010 at Edgewood Rehabilitation and Living Center in Farmington. Kitco - Contributed Commentaries. Al Korelin & Cory Fleck- audio. The Daily 2. 02: Senate Republicans want to get to yes on the health- care bill. With Breanne Deppisch and Joanie Greve THE BIG IDEA: Much of the concern that Republican senators expressed yesterday about the draft health- care bill felt more like political posturing than genuine threats to torpedo the effort. There are not currently the 5. Mitch Mc. Connell unveiled Thursday. There will need to be concessions and compromises, and there are several ways the push could still fall apart in the coming days. But pretty much every Republican, including the current holdouts, wants to pass something. And no GOP senator wants to bear the brunt of the blame from the base for inaction. That factor must not be discounted.- - President Trump, who endorsed the Senate bill last night, also badly wants to get something done, and he’s made clear that he’ll sign whatever makes it through Congress.- - Ted Cruz carried around a “path to yes” memo in his suit coat pocket yesterday that contained a list of his asks. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Mike Lee of Utah — saying that they cannot support the legislation as it stands.
Parse their words carefully, and it’s notable how many outs they gave themselves. Here is the statement in full (I’ve added italics on the wiggle words): “Currently, for a variety of reasons, we are not ready to vote for this bill, but we are open to negotiation and obtaining more information before it is brought to the floor. There are provisions in this draft that represent an improvement to our current health care system, but it does not appear this draft as written will accomplish the most important promise that we made to Americans: to repeal Obamacare and lower their health care costs.”Many believe Cruz is bluffing and will come around, even with small concessions that let him save face. As Republican strategist John Weaver, who played top roles on the presidential campaigns of John Mc. Cain and John Kasich, put it: -- An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, which was in the field earlier this week and published yesterday, helps explain the balancing act we’re seeing from so many Republicans: Only 1. Americans believe that the House health care bill is good, down from 2. Even among Republicans, just one in three view the measure positively. But the public is basically split down the middle over Obamacare, with 4. Asked if Congress and the president should continue their efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, the split is similar: 3. But here’s the rub: 7. Republicans want Congress to continue its effort to repeal the ACA, and only 1. GOP voters want to move on. Independents also slightly favor forging ahead with repeal, 3. Those numbers demonstrate why lawmakers are eager to be perceived as extracting concessions (so they can say they made improvements), but the partisan breakdown also shows why most GOP senators are willing to get behind what remains an unpopular piece of legislation. Even as they do so, however, they are carefully positioning themselves. A bunch of Republicans who will vote yes next week released noncommittal statements yesterday suggesting that they are keeping an open mind. Marco Rubio, for example, said that he’s studying the bill and will “decide how to vote . But if anyone can thread this needle, it’s the Senate majority leader. Susan Collins (R- Maine) told reporters Thursday that she and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R- Alaska) would try to amend the Planned Parenthood restrictions during next week’s . Rob Portman (R- Ohio) and Shelley Moore Capito (R- W. Va.), who oppose the bill’s deep cuts to Medicaid, to be mollified by more cash to combat the opioid epidemic.” That might leave Rand Paul as the biggest hurdle, but Mc. Connell could afford to lose the junior senator from his state. He’s had more than 3. John Thune, No. 3 in GOP leadership, is warning the conservative holdouts that Republicans will be stuck with a single- payer system if they don’t pass this bill. Republicans will have to address each individually. This will slightly delay holding a vote and could mean some late nights next week, but it won’t stop passage if Republicans have 5. But, again, there’s very little they can do to stop it if Republicans have the votes. THE SENATE: -- Overall, the Senate bill does not go as far as the House bill in rolling back the Affordable Care Act. Read the full text of the Senate’s 1. The Senate version says insurers could not deny coverage based on preexisting conditions.- - Like the bill that passed the House last month, the Senate measure phases out expanded Medicaid funding for states, but it does so more gradually between 2. But because of an accounting gimmick, the Senate bill guts Medicaid much more drastically over the long- term than the House bill. Max Ehrenfreund reports: “Through 2. CPI- M. Starting in 2. Senate bill would change the formula, instead funding Medicaid based on a measure of how rapidly all costs are rising, . Sun reports: “The money supports programs to prevent bioterrorism and disease outbreaks, as well as to provide immunizations and screenings for cancer and heart disease . This is less than the $4. Republican Sens. Rob Portman and Shelley Moore Capito requested and far less than $1. Harvard health economics professor estimated this week was needed to truly address the problem.- - Both House leaders, Paul Ryan and Nancy Pelosi, argued that the Senate bill is not radically different from what their chamber passed last month. The Speaker is saying this so that it’s easier to get his members on board. The Minority Leader is saying it to make the point that the Senate version is not a meaningful improvement on the toxically unpopular House bill. Amy Goldstein explains why: “Republicans have vowed for months to . In the Senate, that turns out to be a short- term goal. After 2. 01. 9, the payments would stop. The subsidies would be replaced with smaller tax credits . After the next three years, it also would begin a sharp downward path in federal support for Medicaid, the cornerstone of the nation’s health- care safety net for the past half- century.”- - Laurie Mc. Ginley, Lenny Bernstein and Lena H. Sun provide a few illustrative examples of Americans who could be significantly impacted if the Senate bill becomes law, including a 4. Medicaid and a 5. One way to think about all of this: Obamacare cut the uninsured rate almost in half by redistributing resources from the wealthy to the poor. This bill seeks to undo that redistribution, The New York Times’ Margot Sanger- Katz explains. Sarah Kliff summarizes it this way on Vox: “The bill asks low- and middle- income Americans to spend significantly more for less coverage.” STAKEHOLDERS PANNED THE BILL: - - Hospitals decried the cuts to Medicaid, with the chief executive of the American Hospital Association calling them “unsustainable.” (Juliet Eilperin)- - The AARP said the Senate bill allows insurance companies to charge the elderly up to five times more than young people. The senior’s lobby is mobilizing its membership against what it calls an “age tax.” ( The Hill)- - A chorus of providers warned that the Senate bill would “turn back the clock on women’s health.” “This legislation deliberately strips the landmark women’s health gains made by the Affordable Care Act and would severely limit access to care,” the president of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists wrote in a statement.- - One exception: Insurance executives are happy because the Senate bill reverses a provision in Obamacare that penalized their companies for excessively paying top staff. He plans to stump with Ralph Northam, the Democratic candidate in the Virginia governor’s race. It was real- life lobbying done by a brigade of 1. Capitol Hill’s offices. Here are a few of the most interesting nuggets from the story by national security correspondents Greg Miller, Ellen Nakashima and Adam Entous: “Early last August, an envelope with extraordinary handling restrictions arrived at the White House. Sent by courier from the CIA, it carried . The CIA package came with instructions that it be returned immediately after it was read. To guard against leaks, subsequent meetings in the Situation Room followed the same protocols as planning sessions for the Osama bin Laden raid. The unit functioned as a sealed compartment, its work hidden from the rest of the intelligence community .. They worked exclusively for two groups of “customers,” officials said. The first was Obama and fewer than 1. The second was a team of operations specialists at the CIA, NSA and FBI who took direction from the task force on where to aim their subsequent efforts to collect more intelligence on Russia. In September, Jeh Johnson, Jim Comey and White House Homeland Security adviser Lisa Monaco briefed congressional leaders, but it quickly . Susan Rice summoned Russian Ambassador to the U. S. Sergey Kislyak and handed him a message for Putin; and on Oct. Denis Mc. Donough planned to . It didn't happen. Obama appears to have taken serious and secretive cyber countermeasures against Russia post- election by . Cyber Command”: “The cyber operation is still in its early stages and involves deploying 'implants' in Russian networks deemed 'important to the adversary and that would cause them pain and discomfort if they were disrupted,' a former U. S. Investigators said Wayne W. Hsu)Canada revealed that one of its Special Operations snipers shot an ISIS fighter from over two miles away in Iraq. But Sterling has steadfastly denied he was the source, and evidence against him is largely circumstantial. Mixed- raced and Asian Americans were the fastest growing groups at 3 percent. Adrian Abramovich is said to have made almost 1. Over 1,0. 00 employees clicked to support the petition. Rebecca Burger suffered cardiac arrest from the impact and died in the hospital the following day. He asked a crowd at the U.
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