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Article: Marion Senator Wants Health Care Bill to Get Moving
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- The State Journal
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- February 17, 2006
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CHARLESTON - Health care, income taxes, table games, government purchasing rules - those are just a few of the topics winding their way through the legislative process, and the House of Delegates is dealing with all of them.
Gov. Joe Manchin's proposals to create a clinic-based health care plan and provide basic, low-cost insurance to working West Virginians who lack insurance or have limited coverage were on the fast track to passage until this month. Instead of agreeing to the Senate's version of the bill, however, the
House slowed down things considerably by using a rare parliamentary move to put the bill in the House Health and Human Resources Committee, which has been holding meetings ...