More Hurdles for Health Care
Merging Bills Is Next Obstacle
By David M. Drucker
Roll Call Staff
Roll Call Staff
June 22, 2009, 12 a.m.
Even as a $1 trillion price tag and partisan bickering threaten to derail Senate passage of health care reform this year, another major obstacle looms large: the merger of two competing bills by two powerful Democratic committee chairmen.
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