May 15, 2012 | 3:56 PM |

Live: MA Senate Debates Health Care Cost Bill

FILED UNDER: Insurance, Money, Personal Health, Politics, health costs, Mass. Senate

As we speak, a debate on S.2260, the Senate’s health care cost bill, is underway. You can watch it live here.

But get comfortable: staffers report there are 265 filed amendments to consider.

Lawmakers weigh in on the Senate health care cost bill

Update at 4:53: The Senate voted 15-22 rejecting amendment #125 that sought to trigger a single-payer health care system.

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Blogger, CommonHealth Rachel Zimmerman worked as a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal for 10 years, most recently covering health and medicine out of the paper’s Boston bureau. Rachel has also written for The New York Times, the (now-defunct) Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the alternative newspaper Willamette Week, in Portland, Ore., among other publications. Rachel co-wrote a book about birth, published by Bantam/Random House, and spent 2008 as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. Rachel lives in Cambridge with her husband and two daughters. View all posts by Rachel Zimmerman →