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...TIME: How optimistic are you that both houses of Congress will pass health-reform bills before the August recess, as President Obama is pushing for? Dean: I'm very hopeful the House will pass a bill. I think it's going to be very hard for the Senate. The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee passed a very good bill. The Senate Finance Committee has been unable to reach a bipartisan agreement, which doesn't surprise me. Frankly, I think the Republicans have no interest in reaching one. I've long believed the Democrats are going...
...growing doubts. Douglas Elmendorf, head of the Congressional Budget Office, has testified that the legislation thus far has too little cost containment. Senators of both parties are trying to put the brakes on the President's drive to have bills passed by the House and Senate by the August recess. Republicans are calling it a dangerous "experiment." And even the Mayo Clinic - often cited by Obama as the model of what an efficient, high-quality health-care system should look like - is cautioning on its blog that legislation under consideration in the House "misses the opportunity to help create higher...
...House and Senate by the time Congress adjourns for its August break. White House officials concede that missing that deadline could throw the entire exercise off track, because it would give opponents a month to undermine it. Says one: "If we don't get it done before the August recess, it will be subject to a lot of attack" when lawmakers are home among their constituents. (See how to prevent illness...
...said. But where Reid may have thought he was drawing a line in the sand, GOP Senators took away the opposite message - saying they saw signs that the majority leader might be flexible on his deadline of passing a bill by the time Congress leaves town for its August recess...
...June 16 that he would have a bill ready by the end of the week, suddenly announced on June 17 that he had decided to "slow things down" and that his committee may not begin the formal process of drafting its bill until after the July Fourth congressional recess. If that's the case, it is hard to see how he can meet his other goal of seeing the legislation pass the Senate by the end of July. (See pictures of the Cleveland Clinic's approach to health care...