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...TIME: How optimistic are you that both houses of Congress will pass health-reform bills before the August recess, as President Obama is pushing for? Dean: I'm very hopeful the House will pass a bill. I think it's going to be very hard for the Senate. The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee passed a very good bill. The Senate Finance Committee has been unable to reach a bipartisan agreement, which doesn't surprise me. Frankly, I think the Republicans have no interest in reaching one. I've long believed the Democrats are going...
...What are the potential pitfalls if the Democrats are on their own? I think it's a very good thing. I think the Republicans have correctly diagnosed that the way to stop Obama is to stop the health-care bill. They're determined not to have a bill. In the long run, we're going to have to do this on our own. (See the top 10 health-care-reform players...
...only two expensive things happen to people under 30: one is a malignancy and the other is an accident. Everything else is mostly preventive maintenance and it's very inexpensive. But this is not what's going to be passed. I'm a very big fan of Obama's bill...
...issue came to a boil as the National Governors Association (NGA) met in Biloxi, Miss. At a luncheon with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius - who until April had been governor of Kansas - her former colleagues vented their anger at the idea of being handed the bill for yet another Washington initiative. Tennessee's Democratic governor, Phil Bredesen, told the New York Times that he regarded the proposed expansion of Medicaid as "the mother of all unfunded mandates" and warned, "Medicaid is a poor vehicle for expanding coverage." (See the top 10 health-care-reform players...
...What Congress is now considering is whether to make income alone the determinant of Medicaid coverage. Under the health-reform bill now being considered by the House, all non-elderly people earning at or below 133% of poverty - about $14,400 for an individual and $29,300 for a family of four - would be eligible. The House bill would have the Federal Government pick up the entire cost for those newly covered under Medicaid - $438 billion over 10 years. But a draft proposal by the Senate Finance Committee would have the feds paying the additional cost for only five years...