SENATE HEALTH CARE DEBATE COMING UP, AND OTHER HEALTH CARE NEWS

With Saturday’s successful Senate procedural vote behind us, the stage is set for a debate on health care reform after Thanksgiving. Getting this far—putting a comprehensive health care reform bill on the Senate floor—has never happened before. It’s a big victory, but the Senate bill is still flawed, because it relies on a new tax on workers’ health care benefits. Contact your senatorsand tell them they need to pass a real reform bill, not one that taxes the health benefits of middle-class families. continue reading