Obamacare: Day Seven In The Senate Finance Committee

Robert Moffit / October 02, 2009

On Thursday, October 1, the Senate Finance Committee heard the last of amendments to the America’s Healthy Choices Act of 2009. Senators continued to hammer out the details of health policy, even as they continued to openly contradict many of the President’s high profile promises on health reform, including his promise to refrain from imposing more taxes on America’s middle class.

A State-Based Government Run Health Plan (Cantwell Amendment C15)
Following the failure of the Rockefeller and Schumer amendments to creates a national government run health plan to compete against private health plans, Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) introduced an amendment to create a state-run, federally-funded public health care plan that the states can choose whether or not to adopt. (more…)