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Combined Baucus And Wyden Plan Meets President's Health Reform Goals, Controls Costs And Expands Coverage To All Without Increasing Federal Deficit

This report identifies similarities and differences of the coverage provisions of the Healthy Americans Act (HAA, led by Senators Wyden and Bennett, with 14 bipartisan co-sponsors) and the proposal offered by Senator Baucus, and presents ideas on how these differences could be resolved. Lewin Group researchers identify the specific elements of both proposals taken together that would meet President Obama’s eight health reform goals stated in the budget proposal to Congress, forming a bill that achieves universal coverage and controls cost in the public and private sectors, without increasing the federal deficit.  Finally, due to the complexity of reform, the paper discusses how the coverage provisions could be phased-in over a period of four years as suggested in the Baucus report.

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