AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Maine House on Thursday gave initial approval to a health care overhaul bill by a narrow margin amid objections that some lawmakers were being rushed to judgment on a complex measure that they were still studying.
The bill seeks to ease state regulations and open the health insurance market to more competition.
In a party-line vote, the Republican-majority House approved the bill by a 76-72 margin after a string of Democratic lawmakers took turns complaining that they had not been given time to analyze or even read the proposal before it was heavily revamped and sent out of committee. A Democratic claim that the bill was improperly before the House was overruled.
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