Senate HELP rejects enabling legislation for state single payer experiments
Posted by Don McCanne MD on Tuesday, Jul 14, 2009This entry is from Dr. McCanne's Quote of the Day, a daily health policy update on the single-payer health care reform movement. The QotD is archived on PNHP's website.
Senate HELP Committee
July 14, 2009
Sen. Bernie Sanders just offered an amendment to the Senate HELP health care reform bill that would allow a limited number of state experiments with single payer systems. The proposal would have provided waivers from federal regulations such as ERISA, and would have authorized current federal spending on programs such as Medicare and Medicaid to be transferred to the state to be used in the single payer program.
Those voting for the amendment:
Bernie Sanders
Tom Harkin
Sherrod Brown
Jeff Merkley
All Republicans and all other Democrats voted against it.
http://help.senate.gov/Hearings/2009_06_17_E/2009_06_17_E.html
List of committee members:
http://help.senate.gov/About.html
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