U.S. senator Amy Klobuchar conceded there is a lot of hard work ahead on the health reform, but she said Minnesotans will find plenty to like in the bill that passed in the senate. She asserts 30 million more people will be capable of health coverage and cost reforms will lower the government’s overall deficit over time. The senate’s version must still be re thought with, on the passed the U.S. House and then that mixed compromise must be approved by both bodies without further amendments in order to go to Obama. A key difference is that the House bill contained a public opinion, whereas the senate’s relies on insurance exchanges to extend coverage to the uninsured. The bill would need most Americans under the age of 65 to buy health insurance beginning in 2014, although families earning less than $88,000 per year would get subsidies from the federal government. The authors look forward to the measure, if signed into law, would extend coverage to an additional 31 million Americans who currently can’t afford or qualify for health coverage; the bill also seeks to ban insurance companies from denying or dropping coverage, or raising premiums, based solely on a pre-existing medical condition.