In February 1974, Nixon proposed more comprehensive health insurance reform —an employer mandate to offer private health insurance if employees  volunteered to pay 25 percent of premiums, replacement of Medicaid by state-run  health insurance plans available to all with income-based premiums and cost  sharing, and ...
Mar 16, 2017 ... Republicans continue to sell their health care plan in an effort to deliver on a  party-wide campaign promise to repeal and replace Obamacare. ... vote. One of  these amendments required members of Congress and congressional staff to  enroll in the government-run option and the other involved biologics ...
In January 2013, Representative Jan Schakowsky and 44 other U.S. House of  Representatives Democrats introduced H.R. 261, the "Public Option Deficit  Reduction Act", which would amend the Affordable Care Act to create a public  option. The bill would set up a government-run health insurance plan with  premiums 5% to ...
May 3, 2013 ... Harry Reid and Democrats in Congress were trying to “get themselves exempted  from Obamacare,” in the words of one reader. But there is no bill in Congress  calling for an exemption from the health care law. In fact, members of Congress  and their staffs face additional requirements that most Americans ...
Apr 13, 2010 ... "Let there be no doubt: health care reform cannot wait, it must not wait and it will  not wait another year," he says. ... The industry also wants Obama to drop the  idea of a "public option" -- a government-run health care plan. View a list ... Read  more about what members of the Gang of Six wanted out of the bill.
In every committee when the health care bill was considered, Democrats voted against an amendment that would require members of Congress and their staff to take the government-run public option as their health care plan.