What vote comes up next on the Senate healthcare bills?

[KelleyKramer]

Ok, they voted down the two amendments.

So when do they vote on the Finance bill?

Does anybody have a schedule, does the finance bill then go to the full floor, or do they do the other senate committee vote before that?

[DJ13]

1. Is it a vote...... or an auction?

[TayTay]

2. I answered some of this in another thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6659406&mesg_id=6660029

[KelleyKramer]

4. Where is the calendar?

The HELP bill was placed on the calendar on Sept 17, so does that mean there is a date set? I couldnt find it on any of your links

[TayTay]

5. Not yet

Because the Baucus bill isn't yet a bill, it's still being formed in Finance. It should be a real bill very soon and then it can be filed and ordered reconciled into then HELP bill soon.

The closest I could come to a timetable was an extrapolation based on the messed up first time table for reporting out a bill. We would have to update the dates from when it was first thought Baucus would get a bill together and ready for conference with HELP. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/06/exclusive_the_finance_committe_1.html">Ezra Klein, writing for the Washington Post reported this schedule back in June:

SCHEDULE/TIMETABLE

* Finance Members met bipartisanly yesterday (June 4)

* There will be another bipartisan Members mtg next week to delve deeper the details of where consensus exists around delivery system reforms, insurance mkt reforms, etc (80-90% of bill)

* Hope to drop a mark in or around June 17th

* Hope to markup week of June 22nd (not sure yet if markup will take 2-5 days)

* Markup document will include the description of a proposal (more detail than what was in their options papers and preliminary CBO scores will be available for markup but not necessarily by the 17th)

* Goal for Senate is to have HCR on floor last two weeks of July and on President's desk by Oct. 1

* Finance working closely w/HELP on areas of cross jurisdiction (Dodd and Baucus speaking regularly)

* Goal for Finance remains a bipartisan product

* Consensus forming around 80-90% of bill (delivery system reforms, insurance mkt reforms, etc).

* 3 major sticking points include: public plan, employer pay or play and financing

* HELP just released draft of 1/3 of their bill on coverage. Remaining sections on quality and wellness/prevention to follow soon. HELP hoping to markup beginning June 16.

* House looking to release draft bill mid-late June, markup first 2 weeks in July and move to floor the last week in July.

[Avalux]

3. The two Senate bills, HELP's (Kennedy) and Finance's (Baucus)

need to be put together - only one bill can come out of the Senate. The bills in the House will do the same; so then there will be one bill from the House and one bill from the Senate and then they will need to be put together and made into one bill that will be presented to President Obama.

There's still a long way to go; the HELP bill has a public option and the House bill will too. I think Baucus's little victory today will mean nothing in the end.