Brian Howey reports that Sen. Evan Bayh will continue to analyze the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act about to be debated in the Senate: “I am reserving judgment until I’ve had a chance to fully analyze the proposal and see how it is changed in the coming weeks. I’m encouraged that the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office says this bill will reduce the federal budget deficit by $127 billion over the next 10 years and as much as $650 billion in the years beyond. Still, this is just the beginning of what will be a long process and debate.”
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid praised Bayh's involvement to this point: “Senator Bayh led the effort to make revisions to the Senate health care bill to preserve jobs in the life sciences industry. He approached me this fall and argued passionately that the medical device sector could lose thousands of jobs under tax provisions included in earlier versions of the legislation.”
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Thanks for your "long view" perspective, Tom. I keep thinking I should go back to the Medicare and Medicaid legislation to see what the process looked like there.
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