The senators prepared themselves to put under voting Wednesday the first legislations on the reform of the health. Although the partisan divisions have become majors, and increased the amendments controversial, the democrats expressed their optimism of which they could cause that a law project is approved before Christmas.
The initial amendments offered to illustrate the vast reach of the legislation, and the vulnerabilities that still it has. First, copatrocionada by senators Cruel Mikulski, democrat by Maryland, and Olympia Snowe, republican by Maine, could increase the care of the preventive health for the women to a cost of $940 million during 10 years. One of the objectives of the measurement is to reduce importance to him to the preoccupations that arose the past week when an independent commission recommended that the women must become mamogramas with less frequency.
The second amendment, whose author he is the senator John McCain, republican by Arizona, would eliminate of the law project the main source of income, almost $500.000 million in savings of the Medicare. Although the Association of Retired of the United States (AARP) and other groups of people majors has argued the opposite, the republicans are attacking cuts, while they say that they are a threat to the present benefits that could make the life shorter.
“These people during all their labor life have contributed to the fiduciary fund of the Medicare, and now they run the risk of which $483.000 million of him are eliminated, which in the long run could cause that the care of the health of the people is limited majors to finance in the country a new system of health administered by the government”, said McCain to him to the press.
Other important points that it is created will take to discussion in the form of amendments could have as white clauses in the law project related to the abortion and the illegal immigrants. Harry Reid, leader of the majority of the Senate, and democrat by Nevada, said that the debate could follow until the weekend. “I want that the people feel that they have an opportunity to include/understand the law project, to offer any proposal who think could improve the amendments”, said to Reid Tuesday to him to the reporters.
The republicans have in mind key sections of the law project, among them almost $400 million in fiscal increases that would finance the cost of $848.000 million of the legislation. The republican legislators also hope to propose remarkable changes.