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HEALTH REFORM: To the Floor!
The fifth committee has spoken. The Senate Finance Committee led by Montana Democrat Max Baucus just passed its health reform bill, 14-9. All Democrats, liberals and moderates, backed the bill, along with one Republican moderate, Olympia Snowe of Maine.
As several of the committee members noted, this puts America closer to health reform than it's ever been in the nearly 100 years since President Theodore Roosevelt first demanded that we cover everybody.
Now, after the Finance and Senate HELP bill are melded (not an easy task we know, but none of this has been easy and we've come far) the full Senate will vote. And the House.
As the director of New America's health policy program Len Nichols said, "America got better today."
The insurance companies are
The insurance companies are greedy but I hope this reform will help people that can not affod health care.
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