It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
WASHINGTON – With support from a lone Republican, a key Senate committee Tuesday approved a middle-of-the-road health care plan that moves President Barack Obama's goal of wider and affordable coverage a giant step closer to becoming law.
Now the Finance Committee has cleared the bill, the focus will quickly shift to the closed doors of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office.
The Nevada Democrat must merge the conservative-leaning Finance Committee legislation with a more liberally drawn bill approved by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
The primary difference between the Finance Committee bill and the health committee legislation involves a government-run insurance company -- the public option.
Originally posted by nixie_nox
WASHINGTON – With support from a lone Republican, a key Senate committee Tuesday approved a middle-of-the-road health care plan that moves President Barack Obama's goal of wider and affordable coverage a giant step closer to becoming law.
I knew it was gonna end up in the middle of the road. One step closer. Whether you agree with it or not.
yahoo
edited to add additional linkies for the news hounds
reuters
cnn
[edit on 13-10-2009 by nixie_nox]
Originally posted by nixie_nox
I knew it was gonna end up in the middle of the road. One step closer. Whether you agree with it or not.
Originally posted by Sestias
The only way to keep the insurance companies honest is to offer a not-for-profit option--a "public option" funded by the government. Then the insurance companies will have to compete with the government for cost and coverage and they will have to keep their rates lower and cover more people and conditions.