Burr’s office said that S. 1776 bill had nothing to do with Obamacare, but Burr’s staffer is just plain wrong! The Baucus Bill relies on lower reimbursements to doctors under Medicaire to get to 800 billion over ten years; but S. 1776 increases reimbursements by over 200 billion plus over ten years. Therefore, the overall true cost of the Baucus bill is over a trillion for 10 years.
This is a budgetary shell game and Burr knows better!
They should increase reimbursements for medicare because that’s a big problem with medicine, but at the same time, this is being done separate to hide the true cost of the bill.
So wouldn’t it be better for there to be a vote on this? If they vote to increase Medicare reimbursements over the next ten years, then the scoring of whatever bill comes out of Congress on Obamacare will show a huge deficit—and Obama has said he will not approve a bill that is not deficit neutral.