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Health Care

The day before the Senate Finance Committee is scheduled to vote on the health care reform bill authored by Senator Max Baucus, health insurers announced they plan to issue a report warning that typical families will end up paying a lot more for their health insurance. From today’s Philadelphia Inquirer website article:
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The Senate Finance Committee will vote on the health care reform bill on Tuesday, after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a preliminary report that estimates the bill authored by Senator Max Baucus of Montana will cost us $829 billion and reduce the projected deficit by $81 billion over 10 years. 
From an October 8 article in The Hill:
The Senate Finance Committee will [...]

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The Senate Finance Committee is expected to pass the big health care reform bill this week, which will send it to the Senate floor for debate, amendments and a final vote on passage. In anticipation of this, eight moderate Democrats sent a letter yesterday to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, calling on him to make [...]

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While Congress has been shaping health care legislation that will affect every one of us, and while individual Americans attended townhall meetings across the country to at least try to make their voices heard, health care special interests and their lobbyists have been busy behind the scenes giving key Senators and Representatives campaign contributions. Lots and lots of campaign contributions. And [...]

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Health Care Reform — the Public Option

October 1, 2009

This week, the Senate Finance Committee continued its mark-up (considering and voting on amendments) of health care reform legislation, and two amendments were offered that would have created a government-run health insurance program that is referred to as the ”public option.” The first was offered by Senator John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia, and the second by Senator Charles Schumer of New York. Both [...]

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Senate Finance Committee Digs Into Health Care Reform

September 29, 2009

The Senate Finance Committee is in the middle of marking up (considering and voting on amendments to) the health care reform bill authored by Senator Max Baucus. Here are two highlights:
First, the committee isn’t even marking up an actual bill. They’re marking up a “conceptual outline” of policy changes, and once they’re done marking up the [...]

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