President Brack Obama gave six senators from small states a chance to prominence to fashion a bipartisan bill on overhauling the health care system. That was just one of the risk that President Obama took in his first few months in office. President Obama called a meeting with members of the Senate Budget committee, so that they could possible find a way to release a newly house bill that could possible curb health care cost. But we don’t know if that would possible work seeing how the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care costs. According to House GOP leader John Boehner of Ohio said Elmendorf "confirmed that the Democrats' government-run plan will make health care more costly than ever." President Obama said that, Elmendorf was simply stating the obvious, that bringing 46 million new people into the system would cost money. There were proposals to tax soda pop and increase taxes on alcohol. So the 6 senators then spent months discussing a new tax on health benefits packages, in which they later backed out of it. But they decide to bring it back into effect because they all realize that this could help our country more than it could hurt in when it comes to healthcare in America according to Democratic Sen. Max Baucus of Montana who is proposing a 35 percent tax on the value of insurance plans exceeding $8,000 for individuals and $21,000 for families.
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