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Report, Surveys Begin to Flesh Out Details on Health Care Reform
Analysis is incomplete because the Kennedy proposal has not yet included details on issues that employers oppose, like a public plan option, taxing health benefits, changing ERISA or an employer mandate.
June 17, 2009
Report, Surveys Begin to Flesh Out Details on Health Care Reform
Health reform legislation introduced last week in the Senate would siphon about 15 million employees away from employer-sponsored coverage over the coming years, a finding that reflects concerns among employers that the plan could weaken employment-based health coverage.
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Sweeping Health Care Reform Legislation's Debut Draws Ire of Employers
But underneath the bristling, employers are trying to figure out what a good compromise might look like on key issues including taxing health benefits, employer mandates and a government-run option.
By Jeremy Smerd
For months, congressional policymakers in charge of legislating health care reform held twice-weekly closed-door meetings with a wide-ranging group that included consumers and doctors as well as health insurers and employers.
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Baucus to chop $600 billion from healthcare bill
By Alexander Bolton
Posted: 06/17/09 02:00 PM [ET]
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said Wednesday the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis of his healthcare bill has prompted him to rein in costs and admitted that could delay action on the legislation.
His goal is to bring the cost of his panel's sprawling healthcare reform bill down from $1.6 trillion to $1 trillion, and to pay for it entirely with tax increases, spending cuts and other offsets.
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