House GOPer: Senate ‘Keep Your Health Plan’ Bill Might Be Better Than Ours

Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, left, and Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, right, leave a news conference Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), who introduced the House bill expected to come up for vote Friday which would allow people to keep their existing health plans, said Wednesday that a similar bill introduced by Senate Democrats might actually be better than his.

As TPM has reported, the Upton bill would amend the Affordable Care Act to allow insurers to continue offering their existing individual health insurance plans through 2014. The Senate bill, introduced by Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA), would require them to — and allow people to stay on those non-ACA-compliant plans indefinitely.

“Let’s challenge them to pass [Landrieu’s bill] in the Senate, and if so, I think that’s even a bigger and perhaps better step than what we have in the House,” Upton told the Washington Examiner. “Let’s see if she can pass that.”

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