Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Dems' health care plan stumbles but keeps moving

Democrats got a sobering glimpse of what it would look like if their ambitious health care overhaul ran into a wall _ and they quickly pulled back to regroup and get moving again.

Trying to regain the initiative, House Democrats on Friday unveiled draft legislation they said would cover virtually all of the nation's nearly 50 million uninsured as President Barack Obama has promised. However, they offered few details on how to pay for it.

The president welcomed their action as "a major step toward our goal of fixing what is broken about health care while building on what works."

But in the Senate, two committees were getting bogged down, …

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