Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) said that the Senate will vote Thursday on a healthcare reform package led by Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Mike Crapo (R-ID).

Thune said that Republican senators have put their own proposal, the Crapo-Cassidy plan, as an alternative to the Democrats’ healthcare reform package. The chamber will vote on both the Crapo-Cassidy plan and the Democrats’ plan on Thursday.

Cassidy, the chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Crapo, the chair of the Senate Finance Committee, unveiled on Monday the Health Care Freedom for Patients Act, a bill that seeks to lower healthcare costs and direct money straight to patients so that they have more control over their healthcare decisions.

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