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Health Care Financing Reform: (36) Baucus Bill Passes Finance Committee / The CBO Estimate

October 14, 2009

     Yesterday, by a vote of 14-9, the Senate Finance Committee passed the Baucus bill, the America's Healthy Future Act.  This posting discusses the political line-up behind the bill and the CBO estimate regarding the cost of the bill to the federal government.

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Health Care Financing Reform: (28) Public Option and Other Amendments Before the Senate Finance Committee

September 29, 2009

     The Senate Finance Committee voted down both "public option" amendments to the Baucus bill today, and considered a handful of other amendments.  The Committee is now in recess until 7:15 p.m.  More below the fold.

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Health Care Financing Reform: (24) Public Option Vote Friday

September 24, 2009

     David Herszenhorn of the New York Times is reporting tonight that Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) plan to ask the Senate Finance Committee to add a "public option" to the Baucus bill tomorrow.

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Health Care Financing Reform: (11) How the Dingell and Kennedy Bill Differ on Provider Reimbursement

September 8, 2009

     In the previous post I set forth summaries of the "public option" provisions of the Dingell bill and the Kennedy bill, which are working their way through the House and the Senate respectively.  Below I describe one major difference between the two bills – how each bill would set rates for reimbursing doctors and hospitals [...]

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Health Care Financing Reform: (10) The Public Option in the Kennedy and Dingell Bills

September 7, 2009

     The "public option" that you have heard so much about would essentially create a government insurance program like Medicare and would allow individuals and employers to purchase coverage for themselves and their workers.  The Kennedy bill and the Dingell bill both contain a "public option."  The relevant provisions of each bill are summarized below.

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Health Care Financing Reform: (5) The Wyden-Bennett Bill and "The Exchange"

August 31, 2009

     There are two fundamental approaches that lawmakers are considering to make health care more affordable and to give more persons access to health insurance coverage: (1) regulating the private market for health insurance to expand access and coverage and drive down costs, and (2) allowing people to purchase insurance from a government program similar [...]

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