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Summary of Merged Senate Health Care Bill
Updated 1:11 PM: Yesterday evening Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) unveiled his merged comprehensive health care legislation, hours after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) had released its score of the legislation. The CBO scored the legislation as costing $848 … Continue reading
Summary of the Affordable Health Care for Americans Act
The House bill unveiled this morning is a 1,990 page document that the Congressional Budget Office has scored at $894 billion over ten years, covering an additional 36 million Americans and 97% of citizens overall. You can see the legislation … Continue reading
What Will Finance Do on Health Care?
Members of Congress and staffers have the day off in recognition of Yom Kippur, but even with the break they are preparing for a contentious week of health care debating. Most of the attention this week will be on the … Continue reading
Summary of the Obama Health Care Plan
Last night the President spoke before a joint session of Congress, outlining his goals for comprehensive health care reform and spurring Congress to act and give him a bill to sign before the end of the year. The speech (seen … Continue reading
No Public Plan or Mandate in Finance Bill
Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) emerged from a bipartisan conference yesterday to confirm that the Senate Finance Committee negotiators will not include two major components of the Democratic health care plan in their bill: the creation of a government-run insurance company … Continue reading
How the HELP Bill Affects Associations
Yesterday, the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee passed its health care legislation out of committee in a 13-10 vote. This is the first comprehensive health care bill to be passed from committee in this Congress. The major … Continue reading
What You Need to Know About the House Bill
Yesterday, the House Democratic leadership unveiled their comprehensive healthcare legislation. The legislation has a few changes from the discussion draft circulated last month (you can see the changes here) but the major ones include a new surtax on high-income families … Continue reading
President Engages Association on Health Care
President Obama yesterday addressed the annual meeting of the American Medical Association (AMA) and waded into some of the controversies surrounding health care reform. Last week, the AMA issued a statement expressing discomfort with the idea of a public insurance … Continue reading
