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The Senate HELP Committee staff has filed an official copy of their draft legislation with the Senate clerk.  A friend and I were discussing today two possible tactical scenarios:

The weekend leak forced the majority staff to release their official text as damage control.  Under this scenario, filing the official copy is a damage mitigation strategy:  [...]

This page contains the most recent version of my list of “things you should know about the Kennedy-Dodd health care bill,” interspersed with parallel observations about the leaked outline of the House Democrats’ health care bill.
I will post each time I update this page, so you can track it incrementally.  If you bookmark this page, [...]

When discussing health insurance we frequently hear that there are “46 million uninsured” in America.  This figure is from a monthly survey of about 50,000 households done by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Census Bureau.  This Current Population Survey (CPS) then uses statistical techniques to paint a picture of the entire U.S. population.
Advocates [...]

This past weekend the President signed a short-term extension of a program that finances health insurance for children, called SCHIP:  the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.  We expect the Congress today will send the President H.R. 976, a bill that “reauthorizes” SCHIP for five years.  The President has said he will veto this bill, and [...]