Government Health Insurance Rejected in Senate
The option of including a government-run health insurance option was rejected in the Senate on two separate occasions, even though members of both political parties agreed that the reliance on health insurance companies will have to change. Mondana Democrat Max Baucus, who is the Senate Finance Committee Chairman, is hoping to push his “middle-of-the-road” measure through by the end of the week. The goal of both Baucus and the White House is to have at least one Republican get behind this overhall and thereby swing the vote.
One of the primary options that is currently under consideration is to reduce the overall number of families eligible for federal health coverage to those that earn less than four times the poverty line – roughly forty-five thousand dollars for a single person, or ninety thousand for a family of four. These figures account for a significant portion of spending in the bill, the allotment of which has been reduced to roughly nine hundred billion dollars, the figure that President Obama originally suggested.
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