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 * The Legislature - Contemporary Issues - Health Care Reform**

I want to focus attention on a current controversy in Congress, and what could be better than the fight over health care reform?

Internet Questions Fall 2009 - M2

Using the links below (in addition to your own searching), answer the following three questions:

1. Explain the factors which lead the current Congress to focus on health care reform. Previous Congress' had done so as well. Why did they fail? What factors are likely to lead to its sucess or failure? 2. Discuss the path that the current health care bill has taken through Congress. Focus specifically on the actions of each of the five committees that have passed verisons of the bill. What are the current disputes regarding the content of the bill? 3. One reason why members of Congress may or may not decide to vote for health care legislation is that it may affect their reelection chances in 2010, or whenever they are up for reelection. Discuss how much next years' election may impact the composition of health care reform?

Email to me on the assigned date.

- Times Topics: [|Health Care Reform]. - Congressional Research Service: [|Health Care Reform: An Introduction]. - Kaiser Family Foundation: [|A Brief History of Health Care Reform]. - Center for Responsive Politics: [|Analysis of Health Sector Contributions]. - Congressional Budget Office: [|Health]. - Gallup Poll: [|Health Care]. - Thomas: [|HR 3200: America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009]. - Thomas: [|Chairman's Mark: America's Healthy Future Act of 2009]. - [|Statement about the bill from John Dingell]. - [|The GOP Plan]. - Wikipedia: [|Clinton Health Care Plan of 1993]. - Wikipedia: [|History of Health Care Reform in the United States]. - Wikipedia: [|Health Care Reform in the United States].