Senate health-care bill unlikely to include Medicare buy-in - washingtonpost.com
Tue, 12/15/2009 - 9:14am — Mike
The Medicare buy-in proposal represented a drastically scaled-back version of the original public option and was envisioned as offering coverage to individuals between the ages of 55 and 64 who do not have access to employer benefits. Reid and senior White House officials were prepared to narrow the framework of the plan, essentially walling it off from the Medicare program while vastly reducing the pool of potential beneficiaries.
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