U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Montana) introduced the America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009 on Wednesday. A press release from the Committee stated that the “landmark health care reform legislation would lower costs and provide quality, affordable health care coverage.” Provisions in the legislation seek to:
- ensure that all Americans have access to health care coverage;
- improve the quality of care, increase efficiency and lower health care costs;
- promote preventive health care and wellness.
Read the committee news release (pdf) at: http://finance.senate.gov/press/Bpress/2009press/prb091609.pdf
Read the legislation (pdf) at: http://finance.senate.gov/sitepages/leg/LEG%202009/091609%20Americas_Healthy_Future_Act.pdf
