The New York Times reports Senate Panel Rejects Pair of Public Options in Health Plan "After a half-day of animated debate, the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday rejected efforts by liberal Democrats to add a government-run health insurance plan to major health care legislation, dealing the first official setback to an idea that many Democrats, including President Obama, say they support.
All of the other versions of the health care legislation advancing in Congress — a bill approved by the Senate health committee and a trio of bills in the House — include some version of the government-run plan, or public option.
But the Finance Committee chairman, Senator Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana, long ago removed it from his proposal because of stiff opposition from Republicans who call the public plan a step toward ‘socialized medicine.’"
The Democratic Senators who voted against a public option are: Finance Committee chairman Max. Baucus (D-MT) , Thomas R. Carper (D-DE), Kent Conrad (D-ND), Blanche Lincoln (D-AK), and Bill Nelson (D-FL). If you're in one of those states, call your senator and tell them what you think.
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My concern with this health care reform, as an Independent, is that it’s all over the place, there are not enough specifics and it must be put into writing and as if “written in stone” so that not every illegal that comes to the US will get free healthcare and those that work hard all their citizen life in US pay for every “Tom, Dick and Harry”
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