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Making sense of House health bill

Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor  November 19, 2009 10:58 AM
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The health care debate is complicated enough to confuse even policy wonks.

So the House health committee has built a web application to help Americans figure out how the bill approved by the House earlier this month would affect them. The Senate is working on its own version, and if it passes legislation, a conference committee would try to reach a compromise that can pass both chambers and win President Obama's signature.

It's designed to answer questions including how someone would get coverage, who would be eligible for the new insurance "exchange," what would happen to a worker who gets coverage through their employer, and what would happen to Medicare.

The interactive graphic can be accessed here.

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Glen Johnson Glen Johnson is Politics Editor at boston.com and lead blogger for "Political Intelligence." He moved to Massachusetts in the fourth grade, and has covered local, state, and national politics for over 25 years. E-mail him at johnson@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @globeglen.
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