Republicans on both House panels held together and rejected a variety of Democratic amendments while doing little on their own to change the health bill. VideoAdvertisement Continue reading the main storyThe bill would replace Medicaid’s open-ended entitlement with a per-beneficiary allotment of federal money for low-income people. He called the panel’s discussion “long but fruitful.”Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThe White House appears increasingly confident about the prospects for a health care overhaul to pass in the House. Winning the support of the health care and insurance industries allowed the Obama administration in 2010 to push through the most significant health care legislation since President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society. “Their voice is an important voice in health care.”But, he noted, those groups supported the health care law in 2010.

Source: New York Times March 09, 2017 13:17 UTC