The House Ways and Means Committee today voted on the tri-committee bill and the bill was approved in a 23-to-18 vote. Three democrats--Ron Kind of Wisconsin, Earl Pomeroy of North Dakota and John Tanner of Tennessee--voted against it, citing concerns with the public plan included in the bill.

Ezra Klein
reports on Sen. Ron Wyden’s Free Choice Act, saying that, “It is best understood as a reform of the health-care-reform bill.”

In Massachusetts, the state often cited as a model for universal healthcare, a state commission recommended that the state overhaul the way doctors and hospitals are paid. The commission “wants private insurers and the state and federal Medicaid program to pay providers a set payment for each patient that covers all that person’s care for an entire year”. This would require health care providers to work to manage costs within a set budget.

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