<\/a>Proponents of the Senate Finance Committee\u2019s health care bill say the legislation will limit the amount that lower- and middle-income people must pay for health insurance to a maximum of 12 percent of their incomes. But there\u2019s a catch: The fine print shows that, over time, the premium costs could rise well beyond those caps. That\u2019s because the cost of coverage would shift from a percentage of income to a percentage of the premium, no matter how high the premiums go (Kaiser Health News). <\/p>\n
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<\/a>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will unveil a health-care reform bill on Thursday that includes a government insurance option and a historic expansion of Medicaid, although sticking points in the legislation involving abortion and immigration remain unresolved (The Washington Post). <\/p>\n
<\/a>Paving the way for a crucial vote on healthcare legislation in the next two weeks, House Democratic leaders plan to unveil a compromise bill today that would create a nationwide government-run insurance plan but omit what many liberals consider the key to cost control (Los Angeles Times). <\/p>\n
<\/a>After months of contentious negotiating, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi prepared to unveil a retooled health care overhaul plan intended to bridge differences among Democrats and open a history-making floor debate on extending health insurance to nearly all Americans (The Associated Press\/The Washington Post). <\/p>\n
<\/a>Under pressure from moderate-to-conservative members of the House Democratic caucus, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has decided to propose a government-run insurance plan that would negotiate rates with doctors and hospitals, rather than using prices set by the government, aides said Wednesday (The New York Times). <\/p>\n
<\/a>Speaker Nancy Pelosi is to unveil a health overhaul bill Thursday that includes the public health insurance option favored by her party’s centrists (The Hill). <\/p>\n
<\/a>During a recent closed-door Democratic Caucus meeting, the speaker interrupted Rep. Earl Pomeroy, one of three Democrats to vote against the bill on the Ways and Means Committee, as he stood to lodge a complaint about a potentially costly long-term care provision in the Senate package (Politico). <\/p>\n
<\/a>Speaker Nancy Pelosi will unveil a bill Thursday that falls short of the liberal vision of a public option \u2014 and the liberals, so far and somewhat surprisingly, are going along with that (Politico). <\/p>\n
<\/a>Some of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s colleagues were surprised by his decision this week to include a government-run health-care plan in the Democrats’ bill. But the mathematics of the Senate suggest the motives for the Nevada Democrat’s gamble: While a handful of Democratic moderates don’t like the so-called public option, the liberals who support it easily outnumber them — and at least some of them warned Mr. Reid they would oppose a bill that didn’t include the option (The Wall Street Journal). <\/p>\n
<\/a>Senate Republicans have grown frustrated with large and small business trade associations for not helping enough to oppose the Democratic healthcare overhaul (The Hill). <\/p>\n
<\/a>Shen Baohou, 72, who once worked for a hydropower station in Sichuan province, has a serious heart problem, and he — and his children — are paying for it dearly (The Washington Post). <\/p>\n