First US Senate panel passes healthcare bill

[JonLP24]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON, July 15 (Reuters) - The Senate Health Committee passed on Wednesday its version of legislation to overhaul the U.S. health industry, which is to be combined with a bill yet to be written in the Senate Finance Committee.

The health panel's bill, which passed along a party-line 13-10 vote, would seek to expand coverage to many of the 46 million uninsured Americans, add a government-run healthcare program, require most Americans to obtain health insurance, and mandate most employers to provide it to their workers. The legislation also would seek to reduce costs in the $2.5 trillion U.S. healthcare industry. (Reporting by Jackie Frank and Kim Dixon, editing by Gerald E. McCormick)


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[BumRushDaShow]

1. Here we go! n/t

[Autumn]

2. So it begins

fingers crossed.

[sfwriter]

3. OK... I hope this addresses Job Lock...

How many of the 180 million insured Americans would move on from their current jobs if they knew they could get coverage?

[dmosh42]

4. Mandated insurance to the profit run companies!

This what you can expect from the corporate scumbags in the Senate. Just more Bullshit. Let's have single-payer!