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...debate over health care gathers momentum, attention is focusing on proposals for a new, government-administered health-insurance program to help lower costs. President Obama said on June 23 that the so-called public plan "makes sense" as part of an overall health-reform package; on Capitol Hill, lawmakers are sparring over its pros and cons. Democrats--who favor a public option--can't agree on a plan among themselves, while across the aisle, Republicans are warning of creeping socialism and health-care "rationing." Hold on tight: this battle is just beginning...
HOUSE TRI-COMMITTEE This alliance of three committees released a draft bill June 19, including a public plan financed by premiums. It would initially reimburse health-care providers using Medicare's lower rates...
SENATE HEALTH COMMITTEE In a June 9 legislative draft, space designated for details of a public plan just read "policy under discussion." Dodd and Kennedy favor a public-insurance plan...
SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE No formal draft has been released, but a 10-page outline leaked on June 18 included consumer-run insurance "cooperatives" as a public-plan alternative...
Sources: Number of uninsured: CDC, 2006 data; poll data: ABC News/Washington Post, June 18-21, 2009; potential enrollees to a public plan: the Lewin Group, April 2009; insurance-company market share: National Association of Insurance Commissioners