A draft public health insurance in the U.S. Senate rejected

The Committee on Finance U.S. Senate rejected, Tuesday, September 29, a bill introduced by Sen. Jay Rockefeller aimed at establishing a public health insurance available to all Americans, as part of the establishment of health protection "universal", a central element of the program on which Barack Obama was elected. The committee rejected this proposal by 15 votes against 8. Its 10 members are all Republicans opposed it. They were joined by 5 of the 13 Democrats, including Sen. Max Baucus, Montana and elected chairman of the committee. He had recently seen its own project of "bipartisan compromise" unanimously rejected by the Republicans. All opponents of the project cited the fact that such public health insurance by offering lower prices, competition would be "unfair" to the private sector.