Tuesday, February 06, 2007
The budget President Bush proposed Monday calls for the cordial Medicare cuts of his six years in office and falls short in expanding health coverage to uninsured children. The top priority for congressional Democrats this year. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt recognized the budget's austere tone but said action was needed to rein in programs growing at an unsustainable pace.
"A very clear priority of the budget has been to reach balance in 2012," he told reporters Monday, "and that has forced many of the hard decisions." Consumer and industry groups as well as AARP, the American Medical Association, the American Cancer Society, the Alzheimer's Association and the California Hospital Association and roundly criticized Bush's plan, and their opposition signaled that it is unlikely to gain traction.
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