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June 24, 2009Key Health Industry Groups Oppose Public Plan
Even as President Obama pushed at a press conference yesterday for Congress to include a public health insurance plan in any health reform they pass, two key health industry groups had already alerted Congress to their opposition to any public option, according to The Washington Post.
America’s Health Insurance Plans and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association sent a letter to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee that outlined their opposition to a public plan.
The Post article notes the letter is a departure from the health industry’s efforts to participate and cooperate with the Obama administration on how to structure an overhaul of a sector that makes up nearly 17 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product.
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- Congressional Research Service Memorandum to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
- Letter from Senators Enzi and Coburn to Health and Human Services Secretary Sebelius
- Letter to Health and Human Services Sectretary Sebelius from Senators Grassley and Enzi
- Congressional Budget Office letter to Chairman Stark of the Subcommittee on Health
- Proposed Rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for the Medicare Program
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