"Affordable Health Choices Act." Just released by the Senate Committee on

[Cleita]

Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: Anthony Coley (Kennedy)
June 9, 2009 [phone]
Bryan DeAngelis (Dodd)
[phone]
Kate Cyrul (Harkin)
[phone]
Rachel MacKnight (Mikulski)
[phone]
Jude McCartin (Bingaman)
[phone]
Alex Glass (Murray)
[phone]

KENNEDY, HELP COMMITTEE DEMOCRATS ANNOUNCE THE “AFFORDABLE
HEALTH CHOICES ACT”

Bipartisan Talks Continue on Outstanding Key Issues

WASHINGTON, D.C. – For the past year, Chairman Edward M. Kennedy and Democratic
Members and staff of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP)
have been working to develop legislation that reduces health care costs, allows Americans to
keep the coverage they have if they want it, and makes health insurance affordable to those who
do not have it today.

Today, while discussions between HELP Committee Democrats and Republicans on key
outstanding issues continue, Chairman Kennedy released the landmark “Affordable Health
Choices Act.” Click here for a copy of the bill, http://help.senate.gov/BAI09A84_xml.pdf.

“Our health care system is a crisis for American families and President Obama and members of
Congress of both parties recognize the urgency of the problem. Our goal is to strengthen what
works and fix what doesn’t. Over the next few days, we will continue working with our
Republican colleagues on common sense solutions that reduce skyrocketing health care costs,
assure quality care for all and provide affordable health insurance choices. Much work remains,
and the coming days and weeks won’t be easy. But we have a unique opportunity to give the
American people, at long last, the health care they need and deserve,” said Senator Kennedy. More at link

http://help.senate.gov/Maj_press/2009_06_09.pdf

Well, I looked at it briefly but it doesn't seem like a whole lot of change to me.

[Cleita]

1. Already they yanked it off the website? Sigh, I should have downloaded.n/t

[John Q. Citizen]

2. It's there. 615 pages

Thanks!

[Cleita]

3. Whew, it must have been temporarily down. n/t