The government covers already the medical care for the elder ones, handicapped people, the poor families and much of children. But the insurance in these programs is limited to people who meet certain qualifications, including the age and the income.

The exit is now so workmen of middle-class and their families should be offered the choice to join a plan financed by the government similar so that they by their employers obtain.

If the congress is appropriate, a public plan would belong to the legislation of revision of health which the legislators want to put above President Barack Obama the 'office of S at the end of this year.

The senators on the committee of finances Thursday weigh several designs for a public plan. They also will be given the option not to have any public plan of the whole.

That the last option is the results the sector of the insurances hopes for.

The companies say that a plan of government could put they out of the businesses, and they the 'VE offered to subject to the new consumer protection and lucky find $2 trillion of assistance in saving of health care over 10 years in the hopes draw aside any plan financed by the government. The groups of businesses are also circumspect idea. The republicans already say that a public plan would put bureaucrats, not doctors and patients, in the order of the decisions of life-and-death.

But Democrats think that the idea would be one gaining political. Since Assurance-maladie - a government run the plan - is popular with the elder ones, they appear that a public plan for the middle-class would also find acceptance.

Two of the designs which the senators will consider call for a plan that 's like Assurance-maladie, unless it pays doctors and hospitals a little more liberally. In a version, the public plan would be run directly by the government. The alternative would be to make it manage by the regional intermediaries under contract with the government.

A third idea would leave it until each state to install and run their own public modes of insurance.

A fourth option, supported by SEN. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., would try to approach concern concerning the unfair competition of a public plan.

Schumer 'proposal of S would require public plan to be financed by premiums, not moneys coming from the taxes. It should follow the same rules of solvency as the private insurers, maintaining reserve funds to cover responsibilities. The doctors and the hospitals would be free to take part in the plan, or choose outside. And the public plan should function according to the same rules of consumer protection as the private insurers.

Schumer indicates it believes that the public plan would fix an elevated level for quality. Since him the wouldn 't must turn a benefit, it could invest in the prevention and health.

Its idea also obtains to a narrow glance group of tax Democrats conservatives in the Room, known under the name of blue dogs.