Word: waxman
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Environmentalists were ecstatic when the House of Representatives passed the carbon cap-and-trade bill, led by Democratic Representatives Henry Waxman and Edward Markey, in June. Certainly, the legislation to limit national greenhouse-gas emissions could have been stronger, but the very possibility that the House would pass any such bill would have been unimaginable a year ago. And the timing was perfect. With do-or-die climate negotiations set for the U.N.'s global-warming summit in Copenhagen at the end of the year, the U.S. needed to show the world that it was ready to act on carbon...
What should the President have done? Well, there's a path between the 1,300-page Clinton health-care plan and the 1,000-page Henry Waxman plan that will be voted on in the House. The President could have laid out a set of principles and said, "I will veto any bill that doesn't contain the following ..." (Indeed, he still could do so.) They should be clear, simple, popular and achievable. My list would include insurance reform, health-care exchanges, near universal coverage and tort reform. (Obama's position on tort reform is another abdication of responsibility...
...appears that the Senate Finance Committee is planning to go along with the White House-drug industry arrangement. With the White House and Senate siding with the drug industry, the House will face an uphill battle when the two versions reach a conference committee. Still, Waxman vows, "I think what we're doing is the right policy, and I'd rather benefit the seniors than let the drug companies have a big windfall...
...House Democrats are none too pleased by the White House pact with the drug industry. "We were never part of that deal. We are not bound by that deal," says Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, one of three panels that wrote the House bill. "It was not particularly a deal I would have made...
...1990s. Essentially, a wider "age band," like the 5-to-1 ratio insurers favor, would allow them to charge higher amounts to middle-aged people not yet old enough to qualify for Medicare, while keeping younger people's premiums much lower. In a recent letter to Henry Waxman - chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, one of five congressional committees with jurisdiction over health reform - the president and CEO of Blue Shield of California wrote, "Given the systematic consequences of imposing such a tight band, we strongly urge you to widen...