<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Concerning the Baucus bill from Michael Tanner this week..<br><br><span style="font-style: italic;">In addition, the bill assumes that Congress will implement a 21%
reduction in Medicare payments that is already scheduled under current
law.</span> <br><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10622">http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10622</a></span><br><br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Layne Subera DO<br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> "Cooper, Nancy" <cooper@oucom.ohiou.edu><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "hlthpol@listserv.ohio.edu" <hlthpol@listserv.ohio.edu><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, October 13, 2009 10:06:32 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Hlthpol] Senate Finance Committee To Vote Today On Health Care Reform Overhaul KFF.org<br></font><br>
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<div>Hi Fellows and List Serve members: From the Kaiser Health Policy Report 10/13/09:</div>
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<div><font size="5" color="#264884" face="Georgia, serif">Senate Finance Committee To Vote Today On Health Care Reform Overhaul </font></div>
<div style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;">After months of negotiation, haggling, posturing and talking, the Senate Finance Committee votes today on a health care reform bill. </div>
<div style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, serif"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/12/AR2009101203165.html"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial, sans-serif"><u>The Washington
Post</u></font></a><font size="2" face="Arial, sans-serif"> reports that the Finance Committee, where Democrats hold a 13-10 edge, will likely report the $829 billion bill out to the full Senate despite misgivings from Republicans and some Democrats. "With
few, if any, Republicans expected to support the bill sponsored by Chairman Max Baucus (Mont.), Democrats have already begun their own internal negotiations aimed at reconciling the various measures passed by House and Senate committees." Democrats disagree
on how to pay for the overhaul, the inclusion of a government-run public option and the tax treatment in the measures (Murray and Montgomery, 10/13).
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</font><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091013/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_overhaul"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial, sans-serif"><u>The Associated Press</u></font></a><font size="2" face="Arial, sans-serif"> reports that "much work would lie
ahead before a bill could arrive on Obama's desk, but action by the Finance Committee would mark a significant advance, capping numerous delays as Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., held marathon negotiating sessions — ultimately unsuccessful — aimed at producing
a bipartisan bill." The other committees, three in the House and one other in the Senate voted their bills out of committee before the August recess. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is already merging the other Senate bill — from the more liberal Senate Health,
Education, Labor and Pensions Committee — with the Finance Committee bill to ready it for debate on the Senate floor (Werner, 10/13).
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</font><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-10-12-healthcare_N.htm"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial, sans-serif"><u>USA Today</u></font></a><font size="2" face="Arial, sans-serif"> reports on other "sticking points" -- the mandates
that people have health insurance, penalties for those who don't and the higher cost of premiums on older Americans. "Complicating the task: An 11th-hour attack by the health insurance industry" which issued a report on Monday saying the Finance Committee's
bill will increase the cost of family coverage (see </font><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Daily-Reports/2009/October/13/Insurance-Report-Second-Day.aspx"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial, sans-serif"><u>KHN's summary of stories</u></font></a><font size="2" face="Arial, sans-serif">.) Reid
"will need all 60 members of his caucus to prevent a GOP filibuster from blocking the health care legislation on the Senate floor" (Kiely and Fritze, 10/13). <br>
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</font><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-HealthcareReform/idUSN0749607120091013"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial, sans-serif"><u>Reuters</u></font></a><font size="2" face="Arial, sans-serif">: "The Finance Committee vote will be closely
watched to see if Senator Olympia Snowe, a moderate from Maine, becomes the first Republican in Congress to back a health reform bill and if any of Obama's fellow Democrats defect on the issue. ... Democratic defections would create a major threat to passage
in the Senate, where the party controls only 60 seats and has no margin of error" (Whitesides, 10/13).
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</font><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/congressdaily/cda_20091013_3685.php?"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial, sans-serif"><u>CongressDaily</u></font></a><font size="2" face="Arial, sans-serif"> reports on some Democrats to watch during the
vote: Senate Finance Health Subcommittee Chairman John (Jay) Rockefeller, D-W.Va., Senate Agriculture Chairwoman Blanche Lincoln and Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore. "Rockefeller is a champion of the public option and is unhappy with the co-op alternative in Baucus'
proposal. Lincoln is facing a potentially tough re-election race in a conservative state, and Wyden wants more choices" (Edney and Hunt, 10/13).
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</font><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/77031.html"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial, sans-serif"><u>McClatchy Newspapers</u></font></a><font size="2" face="Arial, sans-serif">: "Republicans have offered several alternatives to Democrats'
health care plans. GOP proposals usually include strengthening employer-provided insurance and offering tax benefits for those who buy coverage on their own. Democratic-controlled committees have routinely rejected Republican plans" (Lightman, 10/12).</font></font></div>
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