This page provides links to Senate Finance Committee proposals on health reform, and written testimony presented at the Committee’s key health reform hearings
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus issued a statement on Friday, Oct. 2, 2009, after the Finance Committee wrapped up the week’s work and prepared to send its amended mark to CBO for a complete score. On September 16, 2009, Chairman Baucus introduced the America’s Healthy Future Act, and the Finance Committee began marking up this legislation September 22, 2009. The Committee will meet next week to review preliminary CBO scores of the amended package and report the bill out of Committee.
Senator Baucus press release 10-2-09
Senate Finance Committee Bill 10-2-09
9-19-09 Amendments submitted to the Chairman’s Mark: America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009
Summary list of amendments related to reforming the health care delivery system
Amendments related to reforming the health care delivery system
Summary list of amendments related to expanding health care coverage
Amendments related to expanding health care coverage
Summary list of amendments related to financing comprehensive health care reform
Amendments related to financing comprehensive health care reform
Chairman’s Mark, Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), Chair of Senate Finance Committee
America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009
Sept. 16, 2009
Click here to download Baucus Mark 9-16-09
Click here to download CBO Analysis
Click here for Joint Tax Committee analysis
Click here for Press Release
FRAMEWORK FOR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH REFORM – FINANCE COMMITTEE
Released Tues. Sept. 8, 2009
This document constitutes a framework of a plan for consideration by the Bipartisan Six. The policies outlined here represent many of the policies discussed with Finance Committee members and described in previous options papers. In addition, the policies also reflect the group’s conversations and the group’s work throughout the summer, including throughout the August recess. Chairman Baucus proposes this framework for consideration and response by the next meeting scheduled for Tuesday, September 8, 2009.
Click here to read Finance Committee Framework
To submit comments on the Senate Finance Committee’s Health Reform Policy Options email PDF or Word files to Health_Reform@finance-dem.senate.gov
The deadlines for public comments are: Delivery System Reform Policy Options, May 15, 2009; Coverage Reform Policy Options, May 22, 2009; Financing Reform Policy Options, May 26, 2009.
5-18-09 Baucus, Grassley Policy Options for Financing Comprehensive Health Care Reform: Proposed Health System Savings and Revenue Options
5-11-09 Baucus, Grassley Policy Options for Expanding Health Care Coverage: Proposals to Provide Affordable Coverage to All Americans
Roundtable Discussion: “Expanding Health Care Coverage”
May 5 , 2009, at 10:00 a.m., in 106 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Member Statements:
Max Baucus, MT
Charles Grassley, IA
Witness Statements:
John Castellani, President, Business Roundtable, Washington, DC
Donald A. Danner, President and CEO, National Federation of Independent Business, Washington, DC
Jennie Chin Hansen, R.N., M.S., F.A.A.N., President, AARP, Washington, DC
Karen Ignagni, President and CEO, America’s Health Insurance Plan, Washington, DC
Len Nichols, Ph.D, Director, Health Policy Program, New America Foundation, Washington, DC
Ron Pollack, J.D., Executive Director, Families USA, Washington, DC
Diane Rowland, Sc.D., Executive Vice President, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Washington, DC
Raymond C. Scheppach, Ph.D., Executive Director, National Governors Association, Washington, DC
Andy Stern, President, Service Employees International Union, Washington, DC
Roundtable Discussion on “Financing Comprehensive Health Care Reform”
May 12 , 2009, at 10:00 a.m.
Member Statements:
Max Baucus, MT
Charles Grassley, IA
Witness Statements:
Leonard Burman, Ph.D., Director, Tax Policy Center, Urban Institute, Washington, DC
Robert Greenstein, Ph.D., Executive Director, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Washington, DC
Jonathan Gruber, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
James A. Klein, President, American Benefits Council, Washington, DC
Edward Kleinbard, Chief of Staff, Joint Committee on Taxation, Washington, DC
Gerald M. Shea, Assistant to the President for Governmental Affairs, AFL-CIO, Washington, DC
John Sheils, Senior Vice President, The Lewin Group, Falls Church, VA
Gail Wilensky, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Project HOPE, Bethesda, MD
Steven Wojcik, Vice President of Public Policy, National Business Group on Health, Washington, DC
Scoring Health Care Reform: CBO’s Budget Options
February 25 , 2009 , at 10:00 a.m.
Member Statements:
Max Baucus, MT
Charles Grassley, IA
Charts referred to in Sen. Grassley’s statement
Witness Statements:
Douglas Elmendorf, Ph.D, Director, Congressional Budget Office
Roundtable to Discuss
Reforming America’s Health Care Delivery System
April 21 , 2009, at 10:00 a.m., in 216 Hart Senate Office Building
Member Statements:
Max Baucus, MT
Charles Grassley, IA
Witness Statements:
Glenn M. Hackbarth, J.D., Chairman, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, Washington, DC
Debra Ness, President, National Partnership for Women and Families, Washington, DC
Glenn Steele Jr., M.D., PhD, President, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA
Richard J. Umbdenstock, FACHE, President and CEO, American Hospital Association, Washington, DC
Ron Williams, Chairman and CEO, Aetna Inc., Hartford, CT
Paul J. Diaz, J.D., President and CEO, Kindred Healthcare Inc., Louisville, KY
