The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Health Care This Week
Category Insurance | Monday, March 15th, 2010Starting today, the House launches a series of sequential committee meetings which the Democratic leadership team hopes will result in the health care bill hitting the floor late this week or over next weekend. So I’ve prepared a manual. A cheat sheet. A “hitchhiker’s guide” that will help you navigate the convoluted parliamentary labyrinth that the health care bill is expected to take this week.
And it all begins today.
For starters, House Democrats are short of the votes they need to pass the bill.
“We don’t have (the votes) as of this morning. But we’ve been working this thing all weekend. We’ll be working it going into the week,” said House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) on NBC’s Meet the Press. But Clyburn indicated Friday that “the votes will be there when we vote.”