Title: Congress Returns from Recess: What's Next? | Friends of Cancer Research
Headings: Congress Returns from Recess: What's Next?
Congress Returns from Recess: What's Next?
August 24, 2009
Congress Returns from Recess: What's Next?
What's Next for Healthcare Reform?

Content: The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP): The HELP committee approved its version of a reform bill, The Affordable Health Choices Act, on July 15th. The bill aims to make health coverage and care more affordable. It does so in a number of ways, most notably, by providing substantial subsidies for insurance premiums, as well as out-of-pocket protections. This bill will need to be negotiated, along with the final Finance Committee bill, into one. Once each chamber has passed their version of Healthcare Reform, House and Senate Leadership will meet in conference to negotiate a compromise bill between each chambers proposed legislation. If then that compromise legislation passes both chambers, it would then be sent to the White House for the president's signature into law.