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Beaver cites last month's prevention study as key to understanding how to best make use of his latest findings on MAO-A and gang membership. If policymakers wish to prevent violence, he says, money would be better spent not hunting for gene-based drugs, say, but expanding and improving neighborhood-based intervention programs, such as early childhood education and after-school activities...
...Public Plan. Yes, the House version has a government-run option, which Democrats say would be crucial to holding down costs and to provide competition that would, in President Barack Obama's words, "keep insurance companies honest," but which Republicans say would be a deal-breaker. Still, the House model appears to be far weaker than one described in early drafts of the HELP Committee's legislation. If those early drafts are any indication, the HELP version would look a lot like Medicare, with the rates that it reimburses hospitals, doctors and other health-care providers linked to those paid...
That's a very big difference. Where the insurance industry says that it would go broke if it had to compete with a Medicare-like option, some of the big companies say privately they could live with a government plan, if it had to sustain itself (as they do) on the premiums they collect, and if it is subject to the same regulatory rules that they are. Similarly, the weaker House version would not run into as much opposition from hospitals and doctors, who don't want yet another government plan squeezing them the way that Medicare does. However, that...
...outline is how they would actually pay for health-care reform. Specifically, there is no mention of an idea being kicked around in the Senate Finance Committee to impose new taxes on at least some of the employer-provided health benefits that workers now get tax-free. House sources say they are facing strong resistance from rank-and-file Democrats against that idea, and Rangel has previously expressed his opposition to such a funding measure...
...hearings on the plan later this month and begin drafting his bill shortly after the July 4 recess. Any differences among the versions produced by the three committees would be worked out by the House Rules Committee - which, in practice, means that Speaker Nancy Pelosi will have a strong say in the shape of the final product. House leaders hope to have a bill on the floor by the final week of July...