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Money Talks The Rest Walk – Debates over Private Sectors Fund
There’s been a deal between Henry Waxman (the chair of Energy and Commerce Committee) and the traditional minded Blue Dog Democrats that pushed out the House version of the health care reform package from the House of House Energy and Commerce Committee, so it could be voted on in September. It is however unlikely of the 57 liberal democrats to be satisfied with it, because they’ve decided to vote against anything and everything that doesn’t have a profound and well defined public option.
This is reflected in the letter where they’ve clearly mentioned that they cannot vote for such a proposal because it’s going to affect the public, both as insurance purchasers and tax payers and they’d have to pay much more to the insurance firms. If this bill is opposed by the Republicans, the negative vote of 57 Democrats would make the bill bite dust.
The contract among the four Blue Dogs and House leaders slashed $100 billion off the bill value. According to the scheme, compensation charges in the government-run “public plan” wouldn’t be tagged to Medicare. The subsidies would also be reduced to make it more successful and affordable. Liberals are not too comfortable with this as they feel it’d too expensive for people to be a part of. House liberals however, have managed to get a slice of “concession” from the chairperson and experts believe this has some significance. They want a single – payer system to be established, so that Medicare becomes more of a public affair and Waxman reportedly said that his committee would honor the request.
It is suspected by some that the Waxman-Bluedog deal is all but white. The deal will empower private insurance companies and Medicare is going to get hit badly. Politics in the country is well fed and the private insurance sector is the one sector that provides 50% of the fodder for politicians and their whims. No wonder, bills and policies are targeted to make them happier! The surge in donations from these private sectors has to be compensated from somewhere!
The above fact also answers why Blue Dogs receive measurably bigger fads of cash from these sectors – around 25%, than other democrats, which puts them right next to Democrats ion attracting private sector support. Ideology seems to have taken a back seat as bribery takes the wheel! Washington is brimming with access peddling issues and the term “bribery” has now graduated to become “donations”. Some believe that the private sector, including insurance companies fund those who are a bit too inclined to agree with their public policy agendas. There’s another group which feels that it’s the politicians who are at fault and are already predisposed to being bought and this triggers massive funding from private sectors. It’s a simple game of give-n-take. The private sectors fund those…rather donates money to those, who they know for sure would let them back ride when in power. It’s a win – win situation for both parties and no one seems to be bothered about compromised public welfare.
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