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...Baucus announced last week a schedule to have his side of the bill marked up by the end of June. Starting in late April, the Finance Committee will hold a series of public roundtables followed by closed-door, member-to-member sessions on the delivery system - public or private, or some combination of the two - in which individual members can weigh in with their own plans and ideas. Other issues of coverage, including cost containment, prevention and wellness, will see similar treatment, aides say. The HELP Committee will have its own schedule on the prevention and wellness provisions as well...
...lawmakers, citing the delicacy of the talks, provided no details of the potential agreement. However, the two main sticking points remain how to pay for a plan that some estimate could cost as much as $1 trillion and how to integrate a public, government-run plan into the private system, two aides say. (Read about Obama's role in health-care reform...
...said they intend to see legislation reach the floor before the August recess, though many admit the tougher part will come when the differences between the two versions must be reconciled. "The House bill will be the high-water mark of what we'd like to do with the system," says a Democratic Senate staffer involved in the talks. "Still, we don't have 60 votes yet. So the House is going to have to accept, to a certain degree, what we work out here...
...Japan's economy has been hard hit by this financial crisis. Under these circumstances, Japan's traditional safety net - the lifetime employment system - was forced to be changed to a great extent. As a result of policies particularly pursued by the Koizumi administration, this employment system has completely collapsed. As a result we are witnessing a large growth in unemployed people, which creates a lot of concern...
...TIME: Is the answer to go back to the traditional Japanese conception of lifelong employment, or is it to create a genuine social safety net with a reformed pension system and reformed medical care system...