Health Reform Draft Bill To Be Released Today

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The Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee will (officially) release a draft of its health reform legislation later this afternoon–four days after a version of it leaked on Friday.

According to Politico, Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT)–a senior member of that committee standing in for chairman Ted Kennedy–said the bill would be unveiled later today, stripped for now of its most controversial provisions, including the employer mandate and the public health insurance option.

We’ll try to get more details for you (including an explanation for why those details will be missing) later today. Soon after the HELP bill is unveiled, the Senate Finance Committee will release its legislation, and the two will later be merged. More on the politics of that here.

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