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The 153-page bill makes a number of changes to the Senate bill. Here is a summary of the bill with a link to the text of the entire reconciliation bill.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid during a news conference on health care. (photo: AP)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid during a news conference on health care. (photo: AP)

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+1 # Birgitte Moyer 2010-03-19 18:46
Bravo! Now how do we persuade enough medical students to go into primary care, so that we can provide health care for the additional 48 million people currently uninsured? Medical students tend to choose the more lucrative specializations .
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0 # Ann Nolan 2010-03-20 05:34
Quoting Birgitte Moyer:
Bravo! Now how do we persuade enough medical students to go into primary care, so that we can provide health care for the additional 48 million people currently uninsured? Medical students tend to choose the more lucrative specializations .

Yes, I sadly remember when medical students entered the profession to help people. However, this recession may change things. Young people will be happy to have a job, any job.
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0 # John Thompson 2010-03-21 18:00
Quoting Birgitte Moyer:
Bravo! Now how do we persuade enough medical students to go into primary care, so that we can provide health care for the additional 48 million people currently uninsured? Medical students tend to choose the more lucrative specializations .

Provide scholarships or loan forgiveness to medical students with a stipulation that they work in primary care for a certain number of years before moving to a specialty practice.
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0 # Paul 2010-03-19 19:00
No wonder there is so much controversy over this bill. What does all the money being allocated for education have to do with health care?? The idea that there is going to be great health savings is a fantasy in my opinion as most of these so called health issues don't take affect for several years and some don't take affect for almost a decade. How can the advocates say with a straight face they will be saving all this money when inflation will probably be very high by 2019 so costs will be out of sight by then. Why they didn't just put everyone into a Medicare type program is beyond me, and that would include senior citizens like myself. If people don't work who is going to pay for their health care I wonder. They will still fill emergency rooms to get their care I would opine.
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+1 # Michael Bugg 2010-03-19 19:35
It's not single-payer, Medicare for all, that would really save businesses, hospitals, doctors, and individuals money, but there is a lot of good stuff in this bill and the reconciliation bill. Republicans once again are doing what they do best - demonizing Democrats and lying about the bill. They had 8 years under Bush to do something but they chose to protect the profits of the health care industry instead, and cram their unfunded, Medicare Part D giveaway to the pharmaceutical industry through Congress, which is adding billions to the deficit each year. What is sad is Taiwan succeeded with a much better reform in 1994 because they put their people ahead of their for-profit health care industry!
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