ThinkProgress provides a helpful chart of the differing health reform plans. the Senate Finance Draft, the Tri House Bill, and HELP Bill current being considered in Congress. Here is a brief discussion of the Tri House Bill and you can see the comparison chart by clicking through to ThinkProgress.
Unlike the HELP bill and the draft (leaked) language of the Senate Finance Committee, the Tri-Committee proposal seems to contain a fairly robust public insurance option.While details are still being worked out, the proposal establishes apublic plan in 2013 that will compete with private insurers, within theExchange, on a level playing field. The public option will be requiredto abide by all marketing, operations, and rating rules and wouldinitially be allowed to use Medicare plus rates. After some time, theplan would have to independently negotiate fees with providers. . . .