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By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailySen. Harry Reid said today that the unified bill he negotiated with the White House and the chairmen of the two committees debating health care this year will feature a government-run health insurance option that states can opt out of if they don't wish to participate. Reid called a press conference today to announce a few, and we do mean a few, of the details of the bill that combined elements of measures passed by the Senate Finance Committee, chaired by Sen Max Baucus, and the Senate Health Committee, led by Sen. Chris Dodd while its late chairman, Ted Kennedy, was ailing.In discussing the ...
Debate on Public Health Insurance Plan Explodes in Senate
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyThe debate over whether to create a public insurance plan to compete with private plans is about to explode in the Senate Finance Committee. The stakes are high and so is the suspense. (Update 4 p.m. ET Tuesday: Public options voted down. See Patricia Murphy's report here). It's unclear what the outcome will be Tuesday when the committee, continuing work on its 10-year, $900 billion health reform bill, is scheduled to take up three versions of a public health insurance option. The panel has 13 Democrats and 10 Republicans. Anything less than a solid wall of Republican opposition to all three ...
Illegal Immigrants Still an Issue in Senate Health Care Negotiations
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyDespite the Obama administration's assurances that illegal immigrants will not receive health insurance benefits under health care reform, six key senators dealt with the increasingly contentious issue as they worked behind closed doors Monday. The 'gang of six' senators-- three Democrats and three Republicans-- are in the final stages of fashioning a compromise on health care that could get the 60 votes necessary to pass out of the chamber. Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said Monday that the group had discussed several specific items in negotiations, ...
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