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Max Baucus: “I know the Senator is concerned about a couple provisions, and I would like to clarify what the costs are. There are…”

On the recordOctober 4, 2002
I know the Senator is concerned about a couple provisions, and I would like to clarify what the costs are. There are provisions here with respect to wage index for rural hospitals. We clearly want to do the best we can, and all these provisions cost a little bit of money. The provisions suggested by Senator Sessions would cost about $10 billion over 10 years. That will be in addition to the $43 billion that is already there. For the Senator's information, we did rough calculations for 2 years, and it would be about $10 billion for the cost of the bill.
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Max Baucus
Democratic · Montana
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Discussing the costs associated with provisions for rural hospitals during a Senate debate.

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