Rangel: Bargainers start compromise health bill

Posted: Feb 2, 2010 6:53 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A leading House Democrat says lawmakers hoping
to revive President Barack Obama's stalled health care overhaul
have started writing a compromise bill.
But in a brief interview Tuesday, Rep. Charles Rangel says he
did not know when the measure might be ready for votes. He said
leaders have to decide whether the health package would begin
moving before or after Congress tackles legislation aimed at
creating jobs.
The New York Democrat said the measure would change the massive
Senate-approved health bill that bargainers from the White House,
Senate and House agreed to last month. Negotiators had agreed to
ease a new tax on high-cost health insurance policies and remove
special treatment for Nebraska for an expansion of Medicaid
coverage

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