the senate will have to amended the current healthcare plan being put forward by the house. more amendments on top of what we have seen. carl cameron is live on capitol hill. there has been so much back and forth my head is swimming. bottom line what this means, more amendments. reporter: we are talking about the reconciliation package of fixes. the house hasn t finished it yet. democrats are touting a preliminary congressional budget office price tag, but cbo has been vocal in its cautionary language telling people slow down. the cbo has not completed an estimate of the potential impact on discretionary spending that would be subject to future appropriation action. that s one line of their warning that this will be an incomplete analysis of the cost. now, the reconciliation package that the house is putting together, once it is finally
according to the c.b.o., 32 million more americans would get coverage, half would be in medicaid. much is likely to change. the budget crunchers warned, c.b.o. has not completed the estimate of the potential impact of the legislation on discretionary spending which would be subject to future appropriation action. it adds $167 billion of additional taxes for total of 494 billion in tax hikes. it s still trillion dollars they ll spend. half of trillion dollars in tax increases. reporter: the bill almost doubles the fee on health insurers from 6.7 to $11.2 billion. the c.b.o. long said that will cause higher premiums. it imposes new penalty on large employers that don t offer health insurance. it increases cuts to medicare, to a new total of $ $535 billion for ten years. $202 billion from medicare