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| US House Democrats Unveil a Health Care Plan |
| from the world's-largest-muddle dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Saturday June 20, @18:24 (Democrats) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/20/1844214 |
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[0]gollum123 sends in this piece from a political blog in the NY Times.
Here is the [1]text of the bill in question (PDF). "House Democrats on
Friday answered President Obama's call for a sweeping overhaul of the
health care system by putting forward [an] [2]852-page draft bill that
would require all Americans to obtain health insurance, force employers
to provide benefits or help pay for them, and create a new public
insurance program to compete with private insurers — a move that
Republicans will bitterly oppose. ... But the chairmen said they still
did not know how much the plan would cost, even as they pledged to pay
for it by cutting Medicare spending and imposing new, unspecified taxes.
The three chairmen described their bill as a starting point in a
weeks-long legislative endeavor that they said would dominate Congress
for the summer and ultimately involve the full panorama of stakeholders
in the health care industry, which accounts for about one-sixth of the
nation's economy. ... House Republicans, who have had no involvement in
the development of the health legislation so far, quickly denounced the
Democrats' proposal as a thinly disguised plan for an eventual government
takeover of the health care system. ... The House Democrats' plan is one
of three distinct efforts underway on Capitol Hill to draft the health
overhaul legislation. In the Senate, both the Finance Committee and the
health committee have separate bills in the works, and in recent days
those efforts seem to have stumbled."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/06/20/1844214
Links:
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http://edlabor.house.gov/documents/111/pdf/publications/DraftHealthCareReform-BillText.pdf
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http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/house-democrats-unveil-plan-for-health-care-overhaul/?hp
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