Congressional Digest

Congressional Digest December 2009 No. 9 Vol. 88
Health Care Reform

Health Care Reform

The Debate over Cost, Quality, and Coverage

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For nearly a century — starting with Teddy Roosevelt’s 1912 Bull Moose Party platform — progressives in the White House and Congress have sought to create a comprehensive national health insurance system.
In the face of numerous setbacks stemming from that time, Congress has taken an incremental approach, enacting programs to provide health security to certain segments of the population — Medicare and Medicaid for people older than 65 and the poor and disabled, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program for children of low-income parents, and laws to allow portability of health co…

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