RSSSenate approves long-term care for seniors, disabled
From: The Washington Times | December 5, 2009
Keeping faith with the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the Senate voted Friday to preserve a new long-term- care insurance program to help seniors and the disabled in its health care overhaul bill. But the vote exposed the difficulties Democratic leaders face in persuading their own moderates to stay united behind the sweeping legislation they hope to deliver to President Obama. Eleven Democrats switched and voted with Republicans, warning that the program would turn into a drain on the federal budget and saddle future generations with even more debt. Republicans fell short in a bid to strike down the voluntary ...
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