Health reform and you: A new guide. How do the House and Senate

[Cleita]

bills differ? What do they mean for you.

For what it's worth, an attempt to explain in question and answer format.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34609984/ns/health-health_care

Health reform and you: A new guide.
How do the House and Senate bills differ? What do they mean for you?

By Jordan Rau, Julie Appleby, Phil Galewitz and Mary Agnes Cary, Kaiser Health News updated 7:54 a.m. PT, Mon., Dec. 28, 2009

Now that the Senate has passed a hotly debated health care bill, Congress is headed to the next step: House of Representatives-Senate negotiations in January to hammer out a final version.

Given the Senate's difficulty in passing a bill, the final legislation is likely to tilt strongly toward that chamber's version. Here's where things stand and how you might be affected.

Q: What are the biggest disputes?

A: There are scores of disagreements, but the biggest battles will come over how the legislation would be paid for, whether to include a government-run insurance plan and how much to spend on subsidies to help lower- and middle-income Americans afford insurance.

More at link. It doesn't begin to answer all my questions but it may be helpful to some.

[damntexdem]

1. Hey, the House should give the Senate its language on abortion ...

and in return ask for its own taxing of the rich, rather than of tanning beds. ;-)