Friday, November 19, 2010

Business groups pace waiting room as Senate conceives health care plan - Nashville Business Journal:

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President Barack Obama has mobilizedthe grass-roots supporters that helpedr elect him to lobby for his visionh of health care reform, which includes offering Americanes a government-run health plan as an alternativee to private insurance. A coalition of labor unionsx and progressive organizations plans tospend $82 million on organizin g efforts, advertising, research and lobbying to supporty the Obama plan. Business groups, meanwhile, mostly are workinf behind the scenes to shapsethe legislation.
While they have serioues concerns about some of the proposals including the public plan optiomn and a mandate for employerd to provideinsurance — few are tryiny to block health care reform at this The cost of health insurance has become so burdensome that somethinh needs to be done, they agree. “Nobody supportzs the status quo,” said James the ’s senior manager of health “We absolutely have to have reform.

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