| The Senate health care bill is out.
Some of its provisions:
- A public option with a state opt-out clause
- Increase payroll tax on Medicare for high-income people
- A tax on high-cost, "Cadillac" health care plans
- Does not prohibit insurers from covering abortions, like the House bill's Stupak amendment
- The health-insurance exchange opens a year later than it would under the House bill, in 2014
More generous subsidies than under the Baucus bill
- $900B over ten years
Igor Volsky charted a comparison of the bill to both the Baucus bill and the House bill. Here's a short summary (pdf) of the bill. Or read the whole bill (pdf) and report back!
The support for cloture on the bill from Democrats Blanche Lincoln, Mary Landrieu, and Ben Nelson is uncertain.
Discuss. |
