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Both the House and Senate health reform proposals would force insurance plans to follow the recommendations as part of a minimum swath of services.

Moments ago, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) took to the chamber floor with a strange claim about the urgency surrounding legislation to extend unemployment insurance.
“The benefits haven’t run out yet,” Kyl said. “We’re going to pass this before the benefits run out.”
It’s tough to decipher exactly what he means.

After seven long days of partisan haggling, the Senate Finance Committee early Friday morning wrapped up its debate on the panel’s sweeping health reform legislation, including a last-minute deal to ease the penalties on those who fail to comply with the requirement that nearly everyone buy health insurance.
Coming into the day’s debate, the bill would [...]

Deep into the Senate Finance Committee’s marathon debate over health care reform, Democrats Thursday night killed a GOP proposal that would have forced legal immigrants to wait five years before getting federal subsidies on the proposed state insurance exchanges.
Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), sponsor of the amendment, said it would simply align exchange policies with those [...]

The Senate Finance Committee on Thursday approved legislation empowering states to create public insurance plans that would negotiate rates on behalf of some of their poorest residents.
The proposal, sponsored by Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), would allow states to create “basic health plans” catering to those earning between 133 percent and 200 percent of poverty. The [...]

Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) makes the gaffe of the day. Rachel Slajda recaps:
Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) argued that insurers must be required to cover basic maternity care. (In several states there are no such requirements.)
“I don’t need maternity care,” Kyl said. “So requiring that on my insurance policy is something that I don’t need and [...]

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D) is a pretty even-keeled, middle-of-the-road kind of guy. It was the Montana moderate who spent months tweaking the Democrats’ health reform plans in the unsuccessful effort to get more Republicans behind it. And even as the finance panel is forging ahead this week with a bill, Baucus has [...]

Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) made headlines yesterday for blasting the co-op insurance model of health care reform as a slippery slope toward government-run health care.
“The president himself said you can imagine a cooperative meeting that definition of a public option,” the Senate’s second-ranking Republican told reporters during a press call.
Today, Sen. Charles Grassley (Iowa), the [...]

You know what Monday is, right? That’s the date, ordered by Judge Alvin Hellerstein, for the government to disclose the CIA inspector general’s 2004 report into the agency’s torture apparatus to the American Civil Liberties Union in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. That document, which according to reports is filled with grisly tales of [...]

Even as some Republican leaders are blasting the co-op insurance model as the first step toward socialized medicine, others appear ready to embrace the strategy as a more conservative alternative to the creation of a government-backed insurance plan. Here’s Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), a member of the Gang of Six, writing today in USA Today:
In [...]