Heeding the call from his fellow democrats that his health care plan won’t bankrupt the republic fast enough, Senator Max Baucus immediately set about making it more costly.
“This is our opportunity to make history,” said Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., who announced he was adding $50 billion to draft legislation to help those who would be required to purchase insurance.
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Democrats hope to push the bill through committee by the end of the week, although it was clear many Democrats want to see changes first. In one statement that could cause political heartburn for Democrats and President Barack Obama, the director of the Congressional Budget Office, Douglas Elmendorf, said the proposal could wind up reducing benefits for seniors enrolled in private Medicare plans.
Obama has said, “Nobody is talking about cutting Medicare benefits.”
Elmendorf also estimated in a letter to Baucus that some families with annual incomes in the range of $66,000 could wind up spending as much as 20 percent of that _ $13,300 _ in out-of-pocket health expenses such as premiums and copays.
One way to make it more acceptable to the unions is to make it more expensive for everyone else (except congress).
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