Delaware lawmakers are poised to pass the most dramatic reform to health care in decades, despite the latest hourslong hearing on the matter in which doctors, nurses and health care administrators packed the tight confines of the Legislative Hall to protest the plan.

What the impact of House Bill 350 – which proposes to create a government panel to oversee hospital spending – will be upon passage remains up for debate.

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