On May 11, 2009, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D‐Mont.) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R‐Iowa) released their policy options for expanding health care coverage, including options for designing a government-run public health insurance plan. Members are scheduled to meet to discuss these options on May 14, and public comments will be accepted on the options through May 22, 2009. An overview of the document is reprinted after the jump. This is the second of three options papers scheduled for release by the Committee, with the third options paper on financing health care reform planned for release before a May 20 meeting of Finance Committee members.
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