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TOPIC: "More Details on the Manager’s Amendment" (NYTimes Prescriptions Blog 12/20/09)


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"More Details on the Manager’s Amendment" (NYTimes Prescriptions Blog 12/20/09)
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New York Times

Making Sense of the Health Care Debate


December 20, 2009, 5:47 pm

More Details on the Manager’s Amendment

KATHARINE Q. SEELYE

A few more goodies for certain states have surfaced in the 383-page Senate health care amendment (.pdf) that was unveiled yesterday.

We’ve already told you about extra benefits for Louisiana, Hawaii, Nebraska, Vermont and Massachusetts.

The new measure, the so-called manager’s amendment, also includes favors obtained, mostly by Democratic Senators, in Montana, Michigan, Connecticut, South Dakota and North Dakota and Republicans in Wyoming.

These things take a while to become public because they are written in convoluted legislative-ese, which rarely spells out the state or constituency that is receiving the advantage. Read more…

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Very informative blog by Katherine Seelye.  Please read in full by visiting the "Read more" link and also visit the attachments.

-- Edited by Sanders on Sunday 20th of December 2009 06:50:06 PM

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I guess this is the change we can believe in.  Congress is never going to change and neither is the White House.

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