Benefit Blog

By Ric Joyner, CEBS, CFCI

The House has just released their version of HCR. The Senate posted theirs recently. The two bills must be approved in each chamber to move to “conference”. Conferencing allows the bills to be blended into one final bill. Next, both chambers vote to approve a final bill, and then on to the President’s desk for signing into law. Due to the issues some representatives have with government run health care, called the public option, which is included in each bill, there is a tough fight in both chambers to pass respective bills into one.

Here is a synopsis from our friends at Kilpatrick Stockton.

Summary: http://www.screencast.com/t/xlAkiUKAA

From the KS Health and Welfare Team:

Not to be outdone by the Senate action on consolidating its two outstanding health care reform bills, the House of Representatives released its revised health care reform bill today.  Apparently, the House is attempting to break the record on how many different existing statutes it can amend with one bill.  I say this because the revised bill drops in at 1,990 pages - almost 1/3 more than the previous bill.  I have attached a summary produced by the House (only 11 pages).  The actual bill is linked below.

http://docs.house.gov/rules/health/111_ahcaa.pdf

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