Sen. Durbin On Health Care Tax, Sotomayor
CBS News: Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said he agrees with Vice President Biden that to tax employer based health insurance is not a good remedy for the health care crisis.
“Max Baucus has a tough assignment,” Durbin said of the chairman of the Senate Finance committee.
“It would not be easy for me to do, “ Durbin said on his ability to vote for a plan which includes a tax to existing benefits.
He congratulated the president on delivering the first $600 billion and noted that it is now up to Congress to come up with the rest of the money needed to reform health care.
“The current system is unsustainable,” he said.
“Keep in mind that everyone today faces a hidden tax” in health insurance premiums which Americans absorb to cover the uninsured.
