The Senate is planning to vote this evening on a slightly modified version of Monday’s defeated bail-out bill. They’ve added a couple of things.
The bill adds new provisions – including raising the FDIC insurance cap to $250,000 from $100,000 – and will be attached to an existing revenue bill that the House also rejected Monday, according to several Democratic leadership aides. [Snip…]
The revised bailout bill also includes a “Mental Health Parity” provision, which would require health insurance companies to cover mental illness at parity with physical illness.
What’s wrong with this picture?
I mean… I like apples as much as the next person, but weren’t we talking about grapes?
(More about that unrelated legislation apple here.)
Update: Now that the bill is available online, I’ve expanded rather a lot on this post at The Moderate Voice.