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...Read "Activists Rethink Their Gay-Marriage Tactics...
...from elsewhere. He says he didn't think Democrats would allow the matter to be voted upon because it would provide election fodder for opponents back home. That said, he still plans to try. "Some things are worth fighting for, and this is one of them," he tells TIME. (Read about the battle over gay rights beyond California...
...would create a national exchange. Instead of a national public insurance plan - the controversial "public option" that is included in both the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Finance Committee bill and the House bill - the Baucus bill calls for the establishment of state or multistate nonprofit health-insurance cooperatives. (Read "Health Reform's Public Option: Down...
...increase the federal deficit." Another Finance Committee member, Delaware Senator Thomas Carper, is reportedly considering introducing a proposal on the Senate floor to allow states to run cooperatives, open up their benefits plans for state employees or even create state public options to compete with private insurers. (Read "5 Things Dems Don't Like About the Baucus Bill...
...premiums for these low-income residents have still risen dramatically since the program launched in the early 1990s, but Cantwell and Baucus say they have been assured informally by the Congressional Budget Office that if states chose to pool residents in this way, the Federal Government would save money. (Read "Baucus Open to Changes in Health-Care Bill...