Max Baucus: “Frankly, it is my preference, strange as it may sound, that the extension be not 7 months but 3 months... I firmly…”

“Frankly, it is my preference, strange as it may sound, that the extension be not 7 months but 3 months... I firmly expect health care reform to be passed within 3 months. If the formula, the sustainable growth rate, is extended for 3 months, that enables us, as soon as health care reform is passed, to then address how we then get a much better solution to the SGR, the sustainable growth rate, and my preference would be a permanent solution.”