Se. Mitchell introduces more modest health bill. (Senate Democratic majority leader George Mitchell)

National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, August, 1994 by Fisher, Mary Jane

WASHINGTON-Introduction of a moderate health care reform bill last week by Senate Democratic Majority Leader George Mitchell weakened House Democratic members' support for the bill proposed a few days earlier by House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt. Rumors were circulating on Capitol Hill last week that the House bill would be modified, in light of the Senate bill employer mandate.

House Speaker Tom Foley announced last week that debate would be delayed. "The task of finding 218 votes for the House bill became more difficult when Sen. Mitchell announced a plan with no. immediate employer mandate, and maybe one in the year 2002," said Frank McArdle, manager of the Hewitt Associates research group in the Washington office. In describing the bill to the...

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