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The Baucus Bill’s Inevitable Consequences

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“The Finance Committee chairman’s bill is a tangled web of federally-dictated insurance regulations, which would control every aspect of health insurance from covered benefits to permissible premiums. The bill would centralize the power of medical decisions with politicians and bureaucrats, not patients and doctors. And it would result in higher health insurance premiums, less consumer choice, and, ultimately, the rationing of health care.” — US Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyl speaking on …

Responses to Finance Committee 14-10 Vote

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As the last of five congressional committees completed work Tuesday on a health-care reform package, lawmakers braced for a debate before the full House and Senate about whether Americans are ready to embrace the far-reaching changes necessary to extend coverage to millions of Americans. With the backing of a lone Republican, the Senate Finance Committee voted 14 to 9 to approve legislation that would, for the first time, require every American to have health insurance. The package would …

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October 18th, 2009 at 5:29 pm


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