Friday, November 6, 2009

How will the bill pass Senate?

Now that the bill has worked its way through the House of Representatives, it has to face its next challenge. The Senate. In order for it to pass through the Senate, many government officials such as Senator Pelosi, believe that the new reform bill will have to do some fine tuning in order for it to have any say in the Senate. The main area to focus on fixing may be the cost of the bill.
First many government officials believe that the cost is the main focus on the bill. The economy is in a deep recession and money is scarce for the United States at the present time. The 1 trillion dollars that the bill says is required to pay for the new reform bill will be heavily debated on in the Senate. Also, many officials, more specifically the Democrats, do not like the idea of using taxes to pay for the bill. They would rather that private insurance companies be made to pay for the bill since most believe they are to blame for the current healthcare system crisis. The Republicans believe that taxes would be a good way to establish money for the bill. This will allow the economy not to suffer in passing the bill. However, it will take money away from American people. The bill right now is at a neutral point with cost in that half is spent by insurance companies and the other half by taxes from the American people.
The cost for the healthcare reform bill is the main issue that may need to be tuned in order for the bill to pass through.

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