I want to finish our discussion on the amendment and offer our second-degree amendment and have a vote on it. It would be a very good thing for us to explain to the American people how we are going to take care of Medicare without reducing the tax cut Americans can look forward to in various forms. The committee that writes tax laws will write that particular bill.
Discussing amendments related to Medicare and tax cuts during Senate floor debate.
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That did not reduce any beneficiaries' benefits, it just cut the amounts that providers were otherwise getting.
It would relate in some way to the process that you and I have learned and call reconciliation.
We may not know all the answers that you seek of us because we did not have a lot of time to study in detail the more intricate health care issues.
I think that the last point that Dr. Rivlin made you can find in the report: that our plan is more progressive than the tax code we are replacing.