...protestors show up to disrupt your hearings.
May 5th's Senate Finance Committee Roundtable Discussion on Expanding Health Care Coverage may have been more exciting than most, but we're no closer to consensus on how to pay for the reforms.
We are, however, coming closer to consensus on several key issues. Most of the representatives at the Roundtable were in favor of mandating that everyone have health insurance (so long as subsidies are in place for low-income families). There's also general agreement on health insurance portability, strengthening Medicare, and using health care IT to help drive efficiency and lower costs.
The elephant is still in the room, though: how are we going to pay for it?
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