This report provides an overview of key provisions of the two separate comprehensive health reform bills passed by the five committees of jurisdiction in the U.S. Congress: the Finance Committee and the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee of the Senate, and the Ways and Means, Education and Labor, and Energy and Commerce committees of the House of Representatives. While the general frameworks of the bills are very similar—all bills include provisions intended to improve and expand coverage and all would create a comprehensive and coherent strategy for improving health care quality—they differ in a few key respects. Most important, the Senate Finance Committee bill does not include a public plan option or a requirement that employers offer coverage, nor does it reform for more than one year Medicare’s formula for setting physician fees; the House bill includes all of these features.
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Full Report
Appendix A-Senate Finance Committee Bill
Appendix B-Senate HELP Bill
Appendix C-House Tri-Committee Bill
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