RSSLiberals to fight for public insurance option
From: The Washington Times | September 27, 2009
Influential Senate Democrats eager to produce a more progressive health care reform bill will push this week for a public option and to require employers to provide insurance, pitting liberal Democrats against both their party’s moderate members and Republicans in major battles. As the Senate Finance Committee enters its second week of debate, Democratic Sens. John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia and Charles E. Schumer of New York plan to try and insert a public option, a government-run insurance plan proponents say will help contain medical costs by competing with private insurers. “We’re going to have a full-blown debate …
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