To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect Medicare's guaranteed benefits and to prohibit replacing guaranteed benefits with the House passed budget plan to turn Medicare into a voucher program.

SA 432. Ms. STABENOW submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by her to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 8, setting forth the
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year
2014, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2013,
and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years
2015 through 2023; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. 3__. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND PROHIBITING MEDICARE
VOUCHERS.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate
may revise the allocations of a committee or committees,
aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution
for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments,
motions, or conference reports related to access for Medicare
beneficiaries, which may include legislation that provides
beneficiary protections from voucher payments, by the amounts
provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided
that such legislation would not increase the deficit over
either the period of the total of fiscal years 2013 through
2018 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2013 through
2023.
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