Mar 23 2010
Kaiser Health News staff writer Mary Agnes Carey offers a guide to some of the phrases being used as the health reform reconciliation bill moves to the Senate. "Byrd droppings. Swiss cheese. Vote-a-rama. These are some of the less-than-elegant phrases being tossed around the halls of Congress now that the House has approved a $940 billion health care package. The main piece of the package, the underlying Senate bill, will be sent to President Barack Obama for his signature. The other piece - a reconciliation bill that would make several changes to the new law -- goes back to the Senate" (Carey, 3/21).
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 This article was reprinted from khn.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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