skippy the bush kangaroo: snowe job

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

snowe job

sen. olympia snowe was the lone repubbblican voting "yea" (or "yay!") on the baucus bill in the senate finance committee today, bringing a health care reform bill (tho certainly not one progressives, or this blog either, would endorse) closer to reality.

asspress:

as we said, progressives find this bill two steps short of abhorrent. more asspress:

a top labor lobbyist says about 30 unions will run a full-page ad in newspapers wednesday announcing their opposition to the senate finance committee's health overhaul bill.

the ad says that unless the bill brought to the senate floor makes substantial progress to address the concerns of working men and women, unions will oppose it.

the legislative director of the american federation of state, county and municipal employees, chuck loveless, says unions are unhappy that the legislation lacks a publicly run insurance plan and would tax insurers that provide expensive coverage.

there's no public option in the baucus bill, which is not good. for anybody. except the insurance companies.

posted by skippy at 4:10 PM |