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Does and embraces the key elements of the senate bill including gardens nieuarantees,n be dropped and no lifetime benefit caps an allowing children to stay on parents' insurance until age 26 and something that doesn't kick in for adults until 2014 but is a major selling point. >> over the next couple of years, phases out the denial of coverage for all people. >> and it has changes to make it more controversial than the senate bill. it raises taxes, $50 billion more than the senate bill and cuts medicare spending $66 billion more, and raising the total to $523 billion. and house democrats would...

>> half a trillion dollars in new tax, $523 billion of money taken from medicare not to expand its insolvency but raid to it pay for the new government program. >> and the cbo, congressional budget office and the chief actuary of medicare say the current bill counts the cuts in medicare as extending the life of the program and also siphons off the money to spend on the new subsidies. and thus spending the same dollars twice. but, democrats point to the cbo judgment that the bill would reduce the deficit by 143 billion over ten years and republicans counter the cbo has to accept whatever congre...

It's a half a trillion dollars in new taxes, $523 billion of many taken from medicare not to expand its insolvency but to pay for the new government program. >> both the cbo says it counts the cuts in medicare by extending the life of the program but siphons off that money to spend on other subs sdis, thus spending the money twice. so the house democratic bill actually adds up, he claims, to $662 billion of deficit spending so a big disagreement here on the bottom line. >> very interesting. jim engle, thank you. right now, a prayer service for house members is wrapping up. joining is yous fa...