Obamacare in the Senate: Medicare Advantage, Medicare Cuts, Home Health Care and Entitlements
Kathryn Nix /
Debate continues on the Senate floor on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009 (H.R.3590), and the focus continues to be on Medicare and Medicare Advantage. While proposing spending cuts in one program to create another, the Senate leadership is claiming that all of these Medicare cuts are possible without cutting benefits or services in current Medicare programs, such as Medicare Advantage and Home Health Care.
Stabenow’s Medicare Advantage Amendment. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) proposed an amendment which would ensure that spending reductions to the Medicare Advantage program would not result in a reduction or elimination in benefits that enrollees would receive. Sen. Stabenow’s amendment passed 97-1.