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Why did this version of the Health Care bill not pass?

Why did this version of the health Care bill not pass? • Lowering health care premiums. This plan will lower health care premiums for American families and small businesses, addressing Americans’ number-one priority for health care reform. • Establishing Universal Access Programs to guarantee access to affordable health care for those with pre-existing conditions. This plan creates Universal Access Programs that expand and reform high-risk pools and reinsurance programs to guarantee that all Americans, regardless of pre-existing conditions or past illnesses, have access to affordable care – while lowering costs for all Americans. • Ending junk lawsuits. This plan would help end costly junk lawsuits and curb defensive medicine by enacting medical liability reforms modeled after the successful state laws of California and Texas. • Prevents insurers from unjustly canceling a policy. This plan prohibits an insurer from canceling a policy unless a person commits fraud or conceals material facts about a health condition. • Encouraging Small Business Health Plans. This plan gives small businesses the power to pool together and offer health care at lower prices, just as corporations and labor unions do. • Encouraging innovative state programs. This plan rewards innovation by providing incentive payments to states that reduce premiums and the number of uninsured. • Allowing Americans to buy insurance across state lines. This plan allows Americans to shop for • Cost: This plan only costs $375 billion instead of the over 1 Trillion of the one that passed. • This plan does NOT take over the Student loan industry, does NOT create numerous new government entities, does NOT cause existing doctors to quit. You can read the entire plan below. http://rules-republicans.house.gov/Media/PDF/RepublicanAlternative3962_9.pdf

Public Comments

1. Because the dems wanted more control. It wasnt about actually solving the problem or they would have passed a bill more like the one you listed.
2. Because this bill does not cover "redistribution of wealth".