"Although
Pelosi was noncommittal, an aide said that if the House does incorporate an
insurance tax in its plan, it would probably be a more modest one than what
Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., has proposed" (Werner and
Alonso-Zaldivar, 9/25).
Meanwhile, "Senators debating a
much-watched bill that would overhaul the nation's health-care system broke for
the weekend Friday without tackling an issue that has split the American
public: whether the government should sponsor a insurance plan to compete with
private insurers," The Washington Post reports. "A group of Democrats
had announced Thursday that they would bring up the so-called public insurance
option in a meeting Friday of the Senate Finance Committee." But the
committee " recessed before the issue could come to the floor. It will not
reconvene until Tuesday morning, in observance of Yom Kippur on Monday"
(Butterworth and Connolly, 9/25).
Source: Kaiser Health News
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