Moments ago, the Senate Finance Committee approved their version of the health care bill and voted 14-9 to report it out of committee. Olympia Snowe of Maine was the only Republican to vote for the bill. For her temerity, she may be denied the position of Ranking Member of the Commerce Committee. I’m not sure it is a good thing overall that Snowe supported the bill. It could be argued that her support for the Finance version of this bill will give it a leg-up on Dodd’s HELP version. That would be unfortunate. But, at least Baucus didn’t delay and delay and negotiate with the Republicans for nothing. He did at least get one vote from them.
Finance Reports Out Health Care Bill
Ambulances parked in front of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington DC.