Kasich-Hickenlooper Plan Gets Warmer Reception Than Cassidy-Graham's At Senate Hearing

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), who says the health reform plan he is writing with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) will be out early next week, received a cold reception to the idea of block-granting and shrinking federal money for states even from Republican governors at the Thursday (Sept. 7) Senate health committee hearing on stabilizing the individual market. But Ranking Democrat Patty Murray (WA) praised a separate plan put forward by Gov. John Hickenlooper (D-CO) with Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) that...