White House and Top
Capitol Hill Democrats Prepare for Final Push on Sweeping Pro-Abortion
Health Care Legislation
WASHINGTON (January 13,
2010)—The Obama White House and top Democratic congressional leaders are
meeting behind closed doors to hammer out a final health care bill,
which they hope to ram through both houses of Congress within a matter
of weeks.
However, there are major
unresolved differences between the health care bill passed by the House
of Representatives in early November (H.R. 3962) and the bill passed by
the Senate in late December (H.R. 3590), including profound differences
on abortion-related policies.
The White House and top
congressional Democrats have made it clear that they would like to pass
a final bill that includes abortion-related provisions along the general
lines of those contained in the Senate-passed bill—provisions that have
been denounced by NRLC and other pro-life groups.
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Health Care Proposals
Contain Numerous Rationing Components
By Jennifer Popik, J.D.
Both the House and Senate
have passed bills fraught with rationing concerns, with negotiations now
having moved behind closed doors. Having circumvented the conference
process, Democratic congressional leaders will work out differences
between the House and Senate version among themselves with no input from
Republicans. Their expressed goal is to pass a final bill to send to
President Obama to sign by February’s Presidential State of the Union
Address.
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