Health care expenditures Kennedy, Dodd, the plan fell to 611 billion U.S. dollars
January 27th, 2010
Key Senate Democrats said Thursday the cost of their plan to reform the health care system America has fallen to 611 billion U.S. dollars in ten years, an amount which will hopefully contribute to a broader bipartisan support in Congress.
Democratic Senators Edward Kennedy and Christopher Dodd, the leader of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in its efforts to recast, Health Law, presented a plan, a health-care options and the government burden on employers who do not have such insurance also. Pay
Have in other parts of the reorganization of health care by the Senate Finance Committee, 97 percent of Americans will come from a combination of insurance, they said.
An earlier version of the Dodd and Kennedy, who was absent from Washington, as he battles a brain tumor behind the 46 million Americans have no health insurance and a sentence was 1 trillion U.S. dollars in the price plan widely criticized.
Do not settle for legislation that gestures of reform, the two lawmakers said in a letter to committee members said the latest cost estimates, and revised plans.
The senators said the lower estimate of the costs resulting from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, after examination of analysts’ whole package is the first time, the estimate for the pieces of the Finance Committee of the Senate is still trading from $ 1 trillion.
President Barack Obama has asked Congress to send legislation to October that universal coverage would cover the increasing cost and effort of one of the main commitments of the presidential campaign.
Today, the Senate HELP Committee is correct that the costs of reducing production, protects the choice of doctors and projects and ensure quality and affordable health care for Americans, Obama said in a statement.
It also demanded that the costs associated with any revision and has not already huge budget deficit.
The two top Democrats in the movement of the new plan for a choice of health care, the government that many Democrats oppose the Department of Health and Human Services to run, to negotiate prices and premiums.
Republicans argue strongly criticized a federal plan equivalent to the takeover of the government and the health system will lead to a purchase of services, taxes must be rejected Democrats.
Kennedy and Dodd said the revised plan also eliminated almost a significant problem that employers will increase coverage for their employees.
Under their plan, employers who do not have health insurance will pay up to $ 750 for full time employees and $ 375 for part-time workers. This is only for businesses with 25 or more employees. (Reporting by Jeremy Pelofsky, editing by Cynthia Osterman)
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