Negotiators will need to finesse a proposal for an employer mandate before Congress passes a final health care reform package.
Health care legislation currently under consideration leaves a lot to the states.
Should health care reform efforts fail, supporters of a public option should take the blame, Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., told Face The Nation on Sunday.
Republicans are reportedly planning to introduce their own comprehensive health care bill.
Both the House and Senate health care bills would cap tax-free health “flex spending” accounts at $2,500.
The notion that an individual mandate is unconstitutional is without merit, the White House believes.
Tyler Cowan tackles the question of why the United States, unlike the rest of the developed world, has never shown much interest controlling health care costs. Ezra Klein gives his take as well.
The Congressional Budget Office scores a significantly watered-down version of Sen. Ron Wyden’s “free choice” amendment. (H/T: TNR’s Jonathan Cohn) More on this later.
