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Article: House to start over on health care coverage effort: Kiss says he wants Manchin proposals to pass but hopes lawmakers can still address cost shifts
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- Charleston Daily Mail
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- February 1, 2006
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The House of Delegates has decided to start over on its effort to
expand health care coverage for the uninsured rather than try to work
out differences with the Senate, which rejected the lower chamber's
move toward universal basic care.
House Speaker Bob Kiss said the House's goal was to set up a
mechanism to have a public discussion about health care costs and the
shifting of the price of caring for the uninsured to people who have
insurance.
"We're not giving up on anything," said Kiss, D-Raleigh. "Our goal
wasn't necessarily universal coverage. Our goal was to do something
about the cost shift, to do as much as you can to get the uninsured
covered."
An estimated 300,000 West Virginians, ...