Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), a member of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, told National Public Radio the majority Democrats would look at making changes to the law. “I think we didn’t do enough the first time around on cost containment,” Sen. Bennet said. “There’s more to be done there, on the Medicare incentive structure.”
Sen. Bennet and two other Senate Democrats who narrowly escaped defeat in the midterm elections, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Sen.-elect Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.), have mentioned revisiting the reform law.
Sen. Bennet has already proposed an amendment requiring Congress to find other sources of revenue if some of the projected savings in the law don’t materialize.
Read The Hill report on cost-containment in healthcare reform.
Read more coverage on revising the reform law:
– GOP Leader Says His Repeal-and-Replace Bill Would Cut Premiums by 10%
– GOP Strategist Targets Parts of Reform Law, Including Assignment to ACOs
– Obama Open to ‘Tweaks’ But Not Revamp of Reform Law
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