Transcript: An Update On Health Care Overhaul Plan

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May 31, 2009
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JACKI LYDEN
NPR Weekend All Things Considered
05-31-2009
An Update On Health Care Overhaul Plan

Host: JACKI LYDEN
Time 19:00-20:00 PM

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JACKI LYDEN, host:

For a look at that national picture, we turn now to NPR's health policy correspondent Julie Rovner.

Hi, Julie.

JULIE ROVNER: Hi, Jacki.

LYDEN: Julie, let's pick up where Karen Brown left off. How likely is it that we'll see Congress require that all Americans have health insurance?

ROVNER: Well, certainly it is a goal of President Obama and many Democrats and some Republicans in Congress that everyone have health insurance, that there be universal coverage. So that is certainly a goal. Now whether people will be required to have ...

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