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If, like a kid after summer vacation, you’ve forgotten everything you learned before the holiday break, allow us to suggest a quick re-entry to the health-care debate. <\/p>\nIf, like a kid after summer vacation, you’ve forgotten everything you learned before the holiday break, allow us to suggest a quick re-entry to the health-care debate. <\/p>\n
It’s time for the House and Senate to hash out the (substantial) differences between the bills they’ve passed. And while it’s pretty clear that the House is going to have to do most of the giving in order to get a final bill through the Senate. The new, government-backed plan that’s included in the House bill, for example, will be DOA in the Senate. <\/p>\n
There might be a little more wiggle room on how to pay for expanded health coverage; for example, Politico says<\/a>, the House might lean on the Senate to raise the threshold for the tax on high-end health insurance plans, which unions don’t like. Differences over how the bills restrict funding for abortions may be particularly tough to resonve, the WSJ has said<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you really want to know what’s what, it’s worth taking a closer look at the differences between the bills. This WSJ story<\/a> is a good jumping off point; if you want to go deeper, take a look at this table<\/a> compiled by House staffers and posted by Politico, or this 24-page takeout<\/a> from the Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n Bonus Process<\/strong>: A couple other wonky details: The House and Senate are going to try to work out a final bill without using a formal conference committee. Here’s why<\/a>. Also, C-Span wants to broadcast<\/a> the House-Senate negotiations, which are expected to take place largely in private<\/a>.<\/p>\n Photo: Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n If, like a kid after summer vacation, you’ve forgotten everything you learned before the holiday break, allow us to suggest a quick re-entry to the health-care debate. It’s time for the House and Senate to hash out the (substantial) differences between the bills they’ve passed. And while it’s pretty clear that the House is going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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