Senate Kills Amended Enzi Bill
Elizabeth Mansfield
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Title:
Senate Kills Amended Enzi Bill
Creator:
Elizabeth Mansfield
Date:
5/12/2006
Text:
As reported online at BusinessInsurance.com at 11:56 am Friday, May 12
WASHINGTON�The Senate effectively killed legislation that would have allowed businesses to band together in so-called small business health plans, refusing to cut off debate on the measure Thursday.
The amended version of the Health Insurance Marketplace Modernization and Affordability Act�S. 1955�had been designed to quell some Democratic opposition to the bill by giving states more power to regulate variation in premiums among the proposed SBHPs. The bill would have allowed the proposed SBHPs to avoid state benefit mandates.
Proponents of the bill held that SBHPs would make health care coverage more affordable and widespread; opponents held that it would remove consumer protections without making insurance more affordable.
An effort to invoke cloture block off any potential filibusters failed to garner the necessary 60 votes on Thursday, as all but one Democratic senator voted against cloture while all Republican members present in the chamber voted for cloture. The Senate appears unlikely to revisit the issue during this session.
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WASHINGTON�The Senate effectively killed legislation that would have allowed businesses to band together in so-called small business health plans, refusing to cut off debate on the measure Thursday.
The amended version of the Health Insurance Marketplace Modernization and Affordability Act�S. 1955�had been designed to quell some Democratic opposition to the bill by giving states more power to regulate variation in premiums among the proposed SBHPs. The bill would have allowed the proposed SBHPs to avoid state benefit mandates.
Proponents of the bill held that SBHPs would make health care coverage more affordable and widespread; opponents held that it would remove consumer protections without making insurance more affordable.
An effort to invoke cloture block off any potential filibusters failed to garner the necessary 60 votes on Thursday, as all but one Democratic senator voted against cloture while all Republican members present in the chamber voted for cloture. The Senate appears unlikely to revisit the issue during this session.
Outsource Marketing Solutions, LLC
860-967-4184
Come on down to New Orleans for the LAOP meeting June 15-17 www.laop.org
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Citation
Elizabeth Mansfield, “Senate Kills Amended Enzi Bill,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 24, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/226551.
