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...allies within the ranks of conservative Democrats to try to bring the bill to a vote in Congress - a big if. If so, the issue could become ammunition to be used against incumbent Democrats in midterm elections next year. Says Duffy: "It might be a vote that Republicans wouldn't mind making them take...
While passage of the bill is almost certain, the prospect of wedding bells for gay and lesbian couples in the nation's capital will nonetheless almost certainly stir up political heat before the bill is passed, which under council rules probably wouldn't happen until December. Some Republicans in Congress, while acknowledging that they are powerless to block same-sex marriage in the capital, will probably still try. Congressman Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican who is the ranking GOP member of the subcommittee with oversight over Washington, says he intends to support any effort to block the bill...
...latitude. Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington drafted an amendment that would allow states the option of pooling residents earning 133% to 200% of the federal poverty level into a group outside the exchange. States would get money from federal subsidies that are available to these low-income earners - who wouldn't be poor enough to qualify for Medicaid even under the proposed expanded guideline - and use the funds to negotiate with private insurers for group plans...
...responsibility for regulating health insurance in the individual and small-group market - the target of most insurance reforms in federal legislation - they will be well poised to enforce whatever new federal regulations are put in place. After all, compared to the relatively simple new rules on the table - insurers wouldn't be able to exclude treatments for pre-existing conditions and would have to sell insurance to anyone who applied for it - many current state insurance regulations are a mishmash of complex formulas and exclusions. "What's been impossible to effectively regulate are these complicated rating rules," says Rick Curtis...
...will take real peace, Palestinian unity, and a natural economic climate, he says, for his business to flourish the way it once did. "I used to have 200 to 300 customers a day. If you had come in before, I wouldn't have been free to talk...