Majority Leader John Thune laid out Tuesday the three components any bipartisan health deal would have to address in order for it to pass the Senate.
That includes instituting minimum premium payments and other new restrictions, providing “a bridge to HSAs” including an expansion of the health savings accounts and dealing with the “Hyde issue” — language that limits federal funding for abortions. All three of the ideas are Republican priorities.
“Those are kind of the ‘big three’ when it comes to something that could get through the Senate,” Thune told reporters of what it would take to land a “healthy majority” in support of any health care…
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