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Government-sponsored health insurance plan to face crucial Senate committee votes
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Sep 25, 2009 10:22am |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar |
| Media | Newspaper - Star Tribune, The (Minneapolis - St. Paul) |
| News Date | Friday, September 25, 2009 10:05:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | WASHINGTON - Advocates for a public insurance plan — the idea that has generated the most passion in the high-decibel health care debate — are pressing for a crucial test vote in the Senate Finance Committee.
Democratic Sens. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and Chuck Schumer of New York said Thursday they want a full debate on whether the government should create a health plan to compete with private insurers and sign up middle-class workers and their families. Up to now, the government has covered the elderly and the poor.
Rockefeller and Schumer had hoped their moment would come Friday, but with the committee moving slowly through hundreds of amendments to the sweeping legislation, the public plan debate was pushed off until next week.
The public option continues to enjoy broad support in opinion polls. But Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., pointedly omitted it from the far-reaching proposal he put before the panel this week, saying he doesn't think it can pass the Senate. |
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