Closed-Door Deal Makes $22 Billion Dollar Difference

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

Closed-Door Deal Makes $22 Billion Difference
GOP Negotiators Criticized for Change In Measure on HMOs

By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, January 24, 2006; Page A01

House and Senate GOP negotiators, meeting behind closed doors last month to complete a major budget-cutting bill, agreed on a change to Senate-passed Medicare legislation that would save the health insurance industry $22 billion over the next decade, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/23/AR2006012301700.html

the article notes that "Democrats were excluded from the meeting"

[rodeodance]

1. I do not think this is how our Constitution imagined the House operating.

[mom cat]

2. They have shreded the constitution...Defeat Alito!