WASHINGTON (AP) — Memo to President Barack Obama and the debt negotiators: You can save $13 billion by fixing a glitch in the new health care law.
That amount may pale in comparison to the "big deal" the president's looking for, but negotiators have got to start somewhere to reach the goal of cutting deficits by $4 trillion over a decade. And the fix would not increase the number of uninsured people.
"This proposal represents an area of savings where there is a rare opportunity for agreement on both sides of the aisle," said Sen. Mike Enzi of Wyoming, senior Republican on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
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