In the Senate, there is still a ways to go before a final product. However, it's looking more and more like the bill authored by Finance chair Charles Grassley (R-IA) and senior panel Democrat Max Baucus (MT), S. 1, will be approved with significant Democratic support. On June 18, for example, the Senate turned back an amendment by Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) that would have offered every FFS beneficiary the option of obtaining drug coverage through a government-run plan, no matter how many private entities in particular geographic areas were willing to offer drug-only plans on the limited risk-bearing...
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