Senate bipartisan proposal on health care released
The much-ballyhooed, long-wrangled-over Baucus health care proposal (PDF), which has largely become President Obama’s blueprint for remaking an industry that accounts for about one-sixth of the American economy, is now public. Only to be wrangled over some more.
The proposal is the result of more than a year of preparation and more than three months of intense negotiations between a small group of Democrats and Republicans led by Senator Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana, the chairman of the Finance Committee.
The first surprise in the Baucus plan: a slimmed down price-tag of $856 billion over 10 years. Earlier versions of the health care legislation had come in costing $1 trillion or more. But stay tuned for a close look at the fine print; Congressional budget-scoring is often as much art as science.
Click here to see Senate health proposal
NYT
9/16/9
Magnolia Tribune
