Senate panel to hold bipartisan hearings on healthcare

[mystery-ak]

Senate panel to hold bipartisan hearings on healthcare
By Rachel Roubein - 08/01/17 03:08 PM EDT

The Senate Health Committee will begin holding bipartisan hearings the first week of September on how to stabilize and strengthen the individual insurance market, the panel's top Democrat and Republican announced Tuesday.

Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) — the chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee — said the goal is for the panel to craft a bipartisan, short-term proposal by mid-September, as insurers must finalize how much their premiums will cost by the end of that month.

“We need to put out the fire in these collapsing markets wherever these markets are,” Alexander said at the beginning of a HELP Committee hearing on nominations.

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http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/344811-senate-panel-to-hold-bipartisan-hearings-on-healthcare

[Oceander]

Bipartisan, or merely capitulation?

[Applewood]

As expected.  The Republicans will now try "bipartisanship" with the Democrats -- which means no repeal, just some watered down cosmetic changes.  Obamacare is staying until it blows up.  Then both parties will give us single payer. 

It was the plan all along.

[truth_seeker]

IOW to kick the ball down the road a few months, to spare insurers and insured, the needed pain of letting it crumble on its own.

The tables turn. Cruz+Lee+Paul can block whatever short term rescue like this.

[dfwgator]

[dfwgator]

As expected.  The Republicans will now try "bipartisanship" with the Democrats -- which means no repeal, just some watered down cosmetic changes.  Obamacare is staying until it blows up.  Then both parties will give us single payer. 

It was the plan all along.

Yep.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

Bipartisan, or merely capitulation?

Bipartisan: Synonym for Date Rape