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Health reform bogs
down in Senate
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Release Date:
07/30/99
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Lawmakers will likely not
consider health care legislation before
Congress' August recess, which is scheduled to
begin next Friday, Aug. 6. House Speaker Dennis
Hastert is calling the chances for a floor vote
on health care before the break a long
shot.
The Patients Bill of Rights was
defeated in the Senate July 16, although a
proposal that creates new mandates and increases
costs for small business owners was
passed.
The health reform debate strikes
at the core of Main Street's most pressing
concern: the high cost of health care. For
years, small employers have considered the high
cost of health care to be the single-greatest
impediment to continuing its leadership of the
nation's economic expansion.
Small
business owners support true-market based reform
measures, like the expansion of Association
Health Plans (AHPs), which provide small
companies economies of scale and give Main
Street firms the same opportunities enjoyed by
self-insured firms that are exempt from state
and federal mandates.
7.30.1999
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