Healthcare

Healthcare Homefront: Excerpts from Senator Tester's Emails

The below story is from a series of emails Senator Tester sent to his distribution list to highlight the importance of health care reform. These are real stories from real Montanans, and their experiences show how the health care reform legislation now being debated in the U.S. Senate will benefit other Montanans in similar situations.
Stay tuned this week for more stories from real folks around the state.

HEALTH CARE HOMEFRONT #4
"Nothing left"
Name:  William Simonsen
Home:  Bigfork

Bill Simonsen, a writer and editor from Bigfork, was diagnosed with lymphoma back in 1996.  Fortunately, he had health insurance.  But it wasn’t enough to protect his family from the high cost of treating the cancer.

Bill has been in remission for several years now. But now he has “nothing left.”

The Senate’s Point Man in the Health Overhaul Marathon

CQ Politics recently wrote a story about Sen. Baucus and his role in the healthcare debate.  See below for excerpts and a link to the story...

"Credit goes, in part, to his own moderate politics. Only a handful of Democrats in the Senate are to his right. And in a chamber where 60 votes — a few of them likely from Republicans — will be necessary on any contentious bill, writing legislation as close to that center line as possible is a necessity. Democrats could use a procedural move called reconciliation to bypass the 60-vote hurdle, but doing so would almost certainly invite a firestorm of lobbying from industry groups, and loud cries from Republicans who would seek to portray the bill as too liberal for the country."

Read the whole story Here

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