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June 14, 2009 at 08:00 PM
Sen. Edward Kennedy and colleagues have released a health reform proposal that would create new coverage options and let employees pay for long term care insurance with pretax income.
Kennedy, D-Mass., says lawmakers tried to strengthen what works and fix what doesn’t.
“Over the next few days, we will continue working with our Republican colleagues on common-sense solutions that reduce skyrocketing health care costs, assure quality care for all and provide affordable health insurance choices,” Kennedy, the chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, says in a statement about the 615-page Affordable Health Choices Act bill.
Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., the highest-ranking Republican on the HELP Committee, says the bill would put the country on a “partisan road to government-rationed health care.”
“We’ve been meeting with Democrats for months to discuss health care reform, but from what I’ve seen in this proposal, it doesn’t look like they listened at all,” Enzi says.
The draft of the bill posted by supporters includes provisions that seek to:
–Stop health insurers from imposing preexisting condition exclusions on purchasers of individual health coverage.
