Focus on Health Reform
Achieving comprehensive health reform has emerged as a leading priority of the President and Congress. This summary of Senate Finance Committee America's Healthy Future Act of 2009, the Senate HELP Committee Affordable Health Choices Act and the House Tri-Committee America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 (H.R. 3200) describes the key components of these leading health reform proposals. The House Tri-Committee summary incorporates the major amendments to the legislation adopted by the three committees of jurisdiction during their mark-ups of the bill. These amendments are identified using an abbreviation for the House panel that approved it-"E&C" for the Committee on Energy and Commerce; "E&L" for the Committee on Education and Labor; and "W&M" for the Committee on Ways and Means.
Click here for the summaries of each Health Care Reform Proposal