How 'trigger' approach could help health care bill pass
The so-called "trigger" approach would hold a public option health insurance plan in reserve and allow it to go forward only if affordable insurance isn't available to most Americans by 2013.
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Black and Latino groups said Monday that they'd begin an ad campaign aimed at urging swing state lawmakers in Congress to back overhauling health care. The groups plan to place ads on television and in newspapers in Florida, North Carolina, Louisiana and Arkansas, where they hope minority voters will be moved to pressure their representatives in Washington.
The so-called "trigger" approach would hold a public option health insurance plan in reserve and allow it to go forward only if affordable insurance isn't available to most Americans by 2013.
With some of the highest healthcare costs in the United States, South Florida has a lot at stake in the current reform proposals.