• Posts Tagged ‘Senate Finance Committee’

    Public Option, Opt-Out

    by  • October 26, 2009 • politics & money

    Much better than a trigger: Senate Majority Leader  Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced Monday that the bill he will bring to the Senate floor will include a public health insurance option that individual states could decline to participate in. “I’ve concluded –with the support of the White House, Senators Dodd and Baucus — that the best [...]

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    At least one Finance Committee Dem is about real Health Care Reform

    by  • August 3, 2009 • politics & money

    Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), who has been shut out of the 6 person, non representative health care negotiations on the Senate Finance Committee, doesn’t seem to be happy about the exclusion or the proposals being mulled over by the Baucus/Conrad/Grassley led group: Rockefeller has sparred privately with Conrad and Baucus during their Democrat-only Finance Committee [...]

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