tci Part B Insider - 2003 Issue 14

Legislation: Devil Is in Details of Medicare Reform Bills

By the time you read this, the House and Senate negotiators will be up to their necks in wrangling over the details of a final Medicare reform package that reconciles the very different bills both bodies passed at the end of June. The conference committee, reportedly led by Ways and Means Chairman Bill Thomas (R-Calif.), will be concerned most of all with the big-picture issues like whether to allow insurance plans to compete directly with Medicare, as the House bill calls for, or to offer a smaller role to private insurers, as the Senate bill would require...

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