What 's Cooking in this week's World Health Care reform and health insurance?

What 's Cooking in this week's World Health Care reform and health insurance? -

Congress is going to have quite the summer in 09.

Not only do they have to help deal with the struggling economy, the bankruptcy of the company, and a sustainable credit crisis, they two major issues to be addressed. health reform legislation and the confirmation hearings of judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court

fishing is President Obama wants these two giants of Congress to pack in late August. Although the great task.

on health care reform and health insurance before, there, AOS a bright light. many reports say real reform is more likely to occur, but there AOS still a lot to work out.

right now, the two largest players doing just that in the Senate are US Senator Ted Kennedy and Senator Max Baucus.

The only problem is that They, Aore the construction of two very different pieces of legislation.

An important provision of Senator Kennedy, AOS bill, which could unveil a reform bill this week, will be a public-private health insurance option that will be injected into the market to compete with other plans . The plan would be more like Medicare.

ÄúAmericans want the choice of enrolling in a health insurance program supported by the government for the public good, not private profit. So this option is available, Âu said Senator Kennedy.

President Obama echoed the sentiment, saying that a public-private plan would, Äúkeep honest private sector, Âu wrote The New York Times .

on the other hand, the version Senator Baucus Health Reform Ao would not have a public-private insurance option. Instead, the private insurance industry would have to make radical reforms (not yet specified) to provide affordable health insurance for all.

But Senator Baucus said he might be in favor of a backup plan if private reforms, for some reason, did not work. The plan is that in several years if no breakthroughs were made in insurance of Americans and to reform the system, then a public-private plan could be created.

The bottom line is that the full bill for health care reform is almost finished, but the deadline is fast approaching.

We, Äôll let Judge Sotomayor for political blogs.

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