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2024-08-05
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The White House, growing concerned that the Congressional timetable for passing a health care overhaul could slip into next year, is stepping up pressure on the Senate for quick action, with President Obama appearing on Sunday in the Rose Garden to call on senators to "take up the baton and bring this effort to the finish line."
Mr.Obama’s remarks came just 14 hours after the House narrowly approved a landmark plan that would cost $1.1 trillion over 10 years and extend insurance coverage to 36 million uninsured Americans; the president called it "a courageous vote".But the votes had barely been counted when the White House began turning its attention to an even bigger hurdle:getting legislation passed in the Senate.
In the Senate, where proposals differ substantially from the House—passed measure on issues like a government—run plan and how to pay for coverage, the bill is stalled while budget analysts assess its overall costs.The slim margin in the House—the bill passed with just two votes to spare, and 39 Democrats opposed it—suggests even greater challenges in the Senate, where the majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, is struggling to hold on to all 58 Democrats and two independents in his caucus.
Mr.Obama has staked his domestic agenda on passing comprehensive health legislation, a goal that has eluded presidents for decades.While Democrats were forced to make major concessions on insurance coverage for abortions to win House passage of the bill, they were nonetheless ebullient on Sunday, with many saying the vote gave them momentum to push the bill forward.
"For years we’ve been told that this couldn’t be done," Mr.Obama said in the Rose Garden.Of the American people, he said, "Moments like this are why they sent us here."
But for all the exultation, there was a sense inside the White House and on Capitol Hill that the hardest work is yet to come.The House debate highlighted the pressures that will come to bear on senators as they weigh contentious issues like federal financing for abortion, coverage for illegal immigrants and the "public option", a government-backed insurance plan to compete with the private sector.
In the Senate, Mr.Reid has merged two bills into one.The fine print is not public, but the broad outlines are known.Unlike the House bill, which pays to extend coverage by taxing individuals who earn more than $ 500,000 a year and couples who earn more than $ 1 million, the Senate bill imposes a 40 percent excise tax on so-called Cadillac plans that cost more than $8, 000 a year for an individual or $21,000 for a family.
And unlike the House bill, which includes a national public plan, the Senate measure would allow states to opt out.But even that is too much government involvement for moderates like Senator Joseph I.Lieberman of Connecticut, a Democrat-turned-independent, who pledged Sunday to wage a filibuster to block any plan with a public option in it.
"If the public option plan is in there," Mr.Lieberman said on Fox News Sunday, "as a matter of conscience, I will not allow this bill to come to a final vote."
Apart from substantive hurdles, the Senate bill faces procedural ones; Mr.Reid cannot bring it to the floor for debate until he gets an analysis, or "score", from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, expected later this week.The delay could push Senate consideration of the bill until after Thanksgiving, which could in turn make it very difficult for Congress to meet Mr.Obama’s goal of signing a health bill into law by the end of this year.
The timing is crucial.Administration officials say Mr.Obama wants to wrap up work on health care so that he can turn his attention to other legislative priorities, including passing an energy bill and revamping financial regulations.But White House officials also know that the closer the final vote comes to the November 2010 midterm Congressional elections, the more difficult it will be to pass legislation.
Sending members of Congress home over an extended Christmas break without a health care bill in hand could prove disastrous politically.Democrats remember well the setbacks they suffered over the August recess when the Senate Finance Committee failed to meet Mr.Obama’s deadline for finishing its measure, and lawmakers were pummeled in town-hall-style meetings around the country. [br] What is the mentioned government-backed insurance plan that is to compete with the private sector?
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The public option.
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文章第六段最后一句后半部分可知,与私营部门竞争的政府支持的保险计划是公共选择。由此可知本题答案。
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