(WASHINGTON, D.C.) U.S. Senator Max Baucus issued the following statement after the BushAdministration’s Medicaid Commission released its recommendations for the Medicaid program.As ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Baucus has played a lead role inprotecting the Medicaid program from proposed budget cuts. The statement follows:
“I am working with Chairman Grassley to find agreement on a $10 billion budgetreconciliation package, which the Finance Committee must report by September 16. While Idon’t believe that all those savings should come from Medicaid, I believe some of thecommission’s ideas have merit, and may warrant consideration in that bill. I’m also heartenedthat the commission did not recommend a number of proposals which, in my view, may haveharmed Medicaid beneficiaries’ access to care."
