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Sen. Baucus Says Health Care Overhaul Will Cover About 95% Of Citizens, Will Not Cover Undocumented Immigrants
Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus (D-Mont.) on Thursday said that Congress" health care overhaul plan would cover 94% to 96% of the population but not undocumented immigrants, the AP/Las Vegas Sun reports (Alonso-Zaldivar, AP/Las Vegas Sun, 5/21). In remarks at a briefing sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation, Families USA and the National Federation of Independent Business, Baucus said, "There are always going to be some people ... you just can"t find" to enroll, adding that "we"re going to try to get as close as we can (to 100% coverage) and we"re working hard to accomplish that." He added, "[W]e"re not going to cover undocumented workers. That"s too politically explosive" (Reichard, CQ HealthBeat, 5/21). According to an analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies and the U.S. Census Bureau, undocumented immigrants make up between 15% and 22% of the estimated 47 million U.S. residents without health coverage. Baucus said, "I don"t have a good answer yet to undocumented workers, illegal aliens," adding, "There will still be charity care " (Landers, Dallas Morning News, 5/22). Baucus said that the bill his committee is working on and that he expects to mark up in mid-June will include "incentives" and possibly requirements for employers to pay for employee health insurance. Baucus mentioned the possibility of including an individual mandate and establishing a health insurance exchange (AP/Las Vegas Sun, 5/21). Baucus also noted that the plan most likely will include a public health insurance option in some form (Tumulty, "Swampland," Time Magazine, 5/21). "Everything"s on the table," Baucus said, warning that "because this is so big, so complex, there are going to be a lot of trade-offs. ... This is just so large" (CQ HealthBeat, 5/21). He said that he is very optimistic about the prospects of bipartisan support for the legislation, placing the odds at between 75% and 80% ("Swampland," Time Magazine, 5/21).
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Senate Dems Prepare Contingency Plans As Finance Negotiators Grapple For A Deal

"Senate Democrats may decide to pass a U.S. health-care overhaul without Republican support if some opposition lawmakers don"t agree to a plan by mid-September," Senator Charles Schumer[ D-N.Y.] said" according to Bloomberg. Schumer said Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., set a self-imposed deadline of Sept. 15 to lead a negotiating team, composed of three Republicans and three Democrats within his Finance Committee, to a bipartisan compromise. ""If we cannot produce a bipartisan solution by then, you have to wonder if the Republicans would ever be willing to agree to anything," Schumer said on a conference call with reporters yesterday. "We will enact health-care reform by the end of the year. If the Republicans are not able to produce an agreement, we will have contingencies in play." ... Schumer said Democrats may invoke the practice of "reconciliation," which requires only 51 votes for Senate passage" (Rowley, 8/4). "While Republicans such as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have derided Democrats" attempts to pass a major health-care bill, the three Republicans involved in negotiations still appear interested in reaching a compromise," Dow Jones Newswires/Wall Street Journal reports. The Republican leadership has been intervening in the Finance Committee negotiations, one Democratic member of the panel said, "cracking the whip" whenever members approach a breakthrough (Yoest, 8/3). "The clout of the few - and particularly the importance of the Senate Finance working group - can be a of frustration for the many on Capitol Hill," the Christian Science Monitor reports. Aides to Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., one of the three Republicans negotiating, said the requirements for a compromise include paying for the bill without incurring new debt; covering everyone; and preserving "robust competition," meaning the public insurance plan prized by Democrats is a no-go. "It"s no secret that [House] members sometimes think: Why do I always read in the paper that they"re checking with the [Senate] Finance Committee all the time," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif (Chaddock, 8/3). The Hill: Schumer said that even if a compromise discounts the coveted public option, such a plan would end up in the final Senate bill anyway. The Finance bill will have to be merged with a more liberal bill from the health committee before the full Senate votes on it (Young, 8/3). Roll Call: Enzi said he does not support the Sept. 15 deadline to cut a bipartisan deal or resort to contingency plans that would leave Republicans out. "I have not and will not agree to an artificial deadline because I am committed to getting health care reform right, not finishing a bill by some arbitrary date," he said (Drucker, 8/3). Boston Globe: As Finance members continue to grapple, other Democrats are preparing to take their messages on the road this month. Sen. Chris Dodd, the acting leader of the health committee who was diagnosed with prostate cancer last month, said "that he will spend the month of August pushing for national health care reform while dealing with his own health care issues" (Nelson, 8/3). This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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