Kaiser Family Foundation Focus on Health Reform

Achieving comprehensive health reform has emerged as a leading priority of the President and Congress. This summary of 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. 

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